<p>The Yale webpage discussing shipment of personal belongings just mentions how packages sent through UPS are handled. Checking shipping websites, it would be faster and cheaper to send packages via FedEx from our home. How are FedEx deliveries handled? Is it better just to use UPS?</p>
<p>Our letter said to do the following for FedEx or UPS (anything besides US Postal Service)</p>
<p>"Private carriers (UPS, Federal Express, etc.) cannot deliver to a PO box; be sure to include your residential college and room number in addition to your Yale Station box number when addressing items sent by private carrier."</p>
<p>Name of Student
PO Box XXXXXXX
XXXXXX Hall Room # XXXX
New Haven, CT 06520-3310</p>
<p>Just did this, myself. Hope it gets there!</p>
<p>(maybe our children will meet while retrieving boxes.....)</p>
<p>For FedEx deliveries or UPS deliveries, I recall that you are supposed to use your residential college's street address. UPS items are routed to the UPS office in Hendrie Hall, while FedEx items deliver to the master's office. The student should get an e-mail notification when the package arrives.</p>
<p>I used UPS Ground Service, addressing it like this:</p>
<p>My Name
c/o Yale University
Trumbull College
Box XXXXXXXX
New Haven, CT 06520-XXXX</p>
<p>At the UPS place I went to... they said to put "box" instead of PO Box so that it's not accidentally assumed undeliverable as UPS do not have access to PO boxes. Hopefully it works.</p>
<p>The directions I quoted came in a letter from Yale's registrar's office, dated July 31, 2008. I don't know if things have changed/are changing, but what I posted is very recent instruction about labeling packages when delivered by Fed Ex or UPS. I assume all entering freshmen got this letter? Not to be pushy, but if this isn't correct, I'd love to know!</p>
<p>I'm not an incoming freshman, so your instructions most likely were not the same as mine.</p>
<p>Just an FYI----UPS delivery to Yale can be a frustrating experience, especially at the start of the school year, when they are overwhelmed with packages. The boxes are stacked on huge UPS trucks; sometimes they have a hard time finding yours. They are supposed to send you an email when you receive a package, so you can pick it up; they often don't. You try to track the package online and find a message that it had to be re-addressed or couldn't be delivered then and they'll have to try another time; you have no idea what was wrong with the address, as you followed instructions, and now your package is delayed for days. USPS package delivery there isn't necessarily better; they are supposed to put a note in your PO Box stating you have a package, but often don't. Rarely did things go as planned.</p>
<p>Great!</p>
<p>All of D's bedding was sent UPS. I sure hope it gets there!</p>
<p>We used US Postal Service for several boxes. This may become an exercise in minimalism.</p>