<p>How does buying things online and getting them delivered to campus work?</p>
<p>If you are living in the dorms, the mail/packages will be handled by the mail room for the respective dorms. For packages, you will get an email notifying you to come on down to pick up your package doesn’t matter if it is via FedEx, UPS or USPS.</p>
<p>did we get the mailing addresses yet? did I miss something?</p>
<p>If you go to Pitt residence life and click on the dorm your child is in, it will have the street address for the building.</p>
<p>Your child will have the room assignment–somewhere. So you just put your child’s name, University of Pittsburgh, Room Number Dorm Name, street address, Pittsburgh, Pa, zip.</p>
<p>Housing link: <a href=“http://www.pc.pitt.edu/housing/halls/index.html[/url]”>http://www.pc.pitt.edu/housing/halls/index.html</a></p>
<p>thanks! wasn’t sure if they were assigned PO Boxes or something like that.</p>
<p>I think the dorms have mail rooms. We have experienced Sutherland and Towers and they both do.</p>
<p>I believe all the dorms have mail rooms.</p>
<p>Their address is their room number and whether they are assigned to A or B (if you have a double). A or B is the bed assignment – you can find it on your housing assignment page.</p>
<p>At Forbes you will be assigned 1 or 2 if you have a roommate–ie 403-1 or 2.</p>
<p>I don’t think the 1 or 2 or the A or B is needed as part of your mailing address. I think it just eliminates arguments over which bed is yours should there be an issue.</p>
<p>Does that mean if you are the 1 assignment you are the first bed as you enter the room? I have not found a diagram that shows this. Thanks. Daughter moved in Friday and her roommate is not there yet.</p>
<p>The designation of 1 or 2 is only for the mail so they put it in the appropriate mailbox. For Towers, DS arrived after his roommate so he had no choice in the bed. I assumed if you arrived first, you had first choice unless the roommates had decided beforehand which bed they wanted. In the suites the key card would only open the appropriate bedroom and DS was first so he chose the bed he wanted.</p>
<p>For Forbes–you need the one or two on all your mail and packages unless you want your kid getting his roommate’s mail and vice versa.</p>
<p>The welcome letter the child receives at the security checkpoint gives you your exact box number with a DASH one or 2 after it, and a keycode for entering your dorm room and building…Actually beds have nothing to do with it. The room was large and we took the bunkbeds down and made them two.</p>
<p>Ah you were one of those with the HUGE rooms. My sons is a nice size but then we saw the Huge one next door</p>
<p>@DonnaMom
S got one of the larger rooms in Forbes as well, and lots of parents wanted to take a look inside while we were unpacking. Now I’m wondering if we actually met yesterday :)</p>
<p>@TomisMom - What floor is he on?</p>
<p>lol @DonnaMom well we did tell him that even though he has always had his own room, this one is bigger which he was very excited about. He gave his roommate the window side; There is a stretch of 4 or 5 windows facing the back parking…</p>
<p>He is on the 4th floor right next to one of the RA’s who he shares a bathroom with. We were happy because he is insulin dependent and has been for 11 years. Just glad he won’t be falling of a top bunk and walking down the hallway barefooted to wash his hands and take his blood in the middle of the night. That was out biggest concern with housing.</p>
<p>He seems to have settled in and is very happy. Brown and Hopkins are a million light years ago.</p>
<p>My son is on the 3rd floor and so far seems to have adjusted well. </p>
<p>His roommate moves in today, so hopefully that will also be a good thing.</p>
<p>Yesterday he was like - bye see you Parents Weekend - you can leave now. LOL</p>
<p>Yeah my son’s roommate came yesterday but they had been texting over the weeks in August. Then they were going out to lunch when he called his Dad yesterday. LOL on the goodbyes…Son was the same with us on Saturday. After driving up, setting up the room, going to Panera for Lunch,the book stores…Target…CVS…he was so ready for us to leave…lol… He had worked 400 hours at Childrens Hospital this summer…in the city and had just quit like 4 days prior…I think that poor kid was ready to sleep and socialize. He gave us our hugs and was grinning when we pulled out of that parking spot. Don’t let the door hit you where the good lord split you…lol</p>
<p>Better to seem them that way then sad and depressed.</p>
<p>Hopefully will continue once classes actually start!</p>
<p>@DonnaMom
S is on 5th, so it probably wasn’t you I met yesterday :)</p>