<p>I want to rent a box of some kind and ship all the bed sheets, pillows, maybe a monitor, and other everyday stuff from home (California) to Lafayette College. How should I do it?</p>
<p>I did receive an address from Lafayette Post Office. Though I don't know if it's the right one to handle giant packages.</p>
<p>On one unrelated note, what exactly is included in the dorm? Desk, chair, fridge? I am assigned to Ruef, btw.</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>If you received your box number form the post office, then you can use that to ship your stuff there.
Your shipping address should be:</p>
<p>Your name
Farinon center box xxxx
Lafayette College (or 111 quad Drive if they need a street name)
Easton, PA 18042.</p>
<p>You can send giant packages to that box and they will hold it for you at the main desk. Although I would recommend waiting until as close to your arrival date as possible cos the post office doesn’t like to hold packages for too long.</p>
<p>Dorm stuff in Ruef - Loftable bed with head board and foot board, study desk, chair, chest of drawers, shelf rack for your desk and a walk in closet with a single shelf and hanging space and a single light for the entire room (which is kinda dim btw)
Bring a fridge, a fan, a carpet and a good desk / clip on lamp. If you want, you should consider getting a curtain because the walk in closets in ruef dont have doors or a cover of any kind. A curtain and a tension rod will solve that though.</p>
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<p>By chance the school or a place near the school sell these? If I can get them locally it could possibly save me the trouble to ship anything at all.</p>
<p>Oh, just thought of a question. Does the dorm rooms have Wifi or do I have to bring a router of some kind there.</p>
<p>For the carpet, there’s normally a company selling those outside farinon on the first day of orientation and they’re reasonable priced and big sizes. For the rest of the stuff, there’s a Walmart, a K Mart and a Target within 10 mins driving distance from campus. You will receive, or probably have received, some kinda mailing from the college about renting a micro-fridge for the year. That’s convenient since they drop it outside your door and pick it up at the end of the year, but it’s unbelievably overpriced (it was $200 for a year’s rental when I was a freshman). Plus I really don’t recommend that because you don’t need the microwave part of it in your room. You can buy a fridge that will last you for 4 years for much cheaper.</p>
<p>You should check out the ship-to-store option for places like Walmart and Target. That way if you find any of these things that you like on their online website, you can ship it for free to the store locations near Lafayette and pick it up when you get here.</p>
<p>The entire campus has wifi so you will get internet access in all the dorm rooms, academic buildings, social buildings and open spaces. You can purchase a LAN (or CAT 5e depending on the dorm) cable if you want access to the wired network. It’s faster than wifi, but if you don’t plan on doing any heavy internet work, then you don’t need the cable.</p>
<p>I have been looking around for ways to ship directly to the school. After all, I don’t have a car or know anybody in the area with one. As I try to direct Apple to ship the iPhone to the address school gave me, I found that Apple, a along with a lot other online stores, don’t ship to ‘PO boxes’. So how am I going to buy anything online when most of them won’t ship to my school?</p>
<p>This kinda situation happens alot. I just ordered something from Amazon a few hours ago and had to go through the same thing. It requires a little bit of jiggling around with your address when you enter the shipping address info.</p>
<p>Try putting in variations and combinations of :
Farinon Center Box xxxx, Lafayette College Box xxxx, Lafayette College xxxx, Farinon Center xxxx and 111 Quad Drive / Lafayette college. Eventually you will find one that fits. Make sure your 4 digit number is mentioned. Beyond that, whether it says 111 Quad Drive or Lafayette College or Farinon center doesn’t really matter.</p>
<p>If this doesn’t work online, the only alternative is to call the company help desk and explain that you’re shipping to a college campus. Their representatives will be able to input your address on their end.</p>
<p>exe - your “ship to” address is “Box xxxx” not PO Box. You don’t have a PO Box and should be sure not to put that PO part in your shipping instructions. We shipped all of my D’s books and other large-boxed items with no problem.</p>
<p>I got Amazon working with the box thing. Some other website I tried, like Apple, when I put down box xxxx in any field it automatically recognoize it as a PO box and deny me from using it. I have not been to the residence hall yet. What do you mean it’s not really a PO box? So I don’t really get a box and the place is not a school “post office”?</p>