<p>Do I really need it? Is there any other way I can recieve my mail? Perhaps have it delivered to my dean if I know I'm getting sent something? Thanks!</p>
<p>why? ten char</p>
<p>There is no way to receive mail except through a PO Box - you cannot have mail sent to your Residential College. Packages can be shipped to your college, under certain circumstances, so I guess if you could manage to get all your mail Fed-exed to you, you wouldn’t need a PO Box, but otherwise it’s definitely necessary.</p>
<p>Well, I don’t know about other colleges, but JE lets you get mail to the college. People living in Swing Space can mail to Swing, too.</p>
<p>In the Freshman Book it states that you have to apply for your Yale station post office box, but we received the letter from the Office of the Dean where it looks like my son has been assigned a PO Box or is this just the Residential College PO Box?
Thank you</p>
<p>I received a letter from the registrar in early Aug telling me that I had been assigned a mailbox number but that I couldn’t get mail unless I sent the PO a check to pay for the box.</p>
<p>I can assure you that I didn’t get the PO Box application, however I don’t trust myself totally these “preparing my son to go to college days” so this what I did:
*Called the Registrar’s Office
*They told me to go to Yale Phonebook online
*Yes!, there was my son AND the POBox he has been assigned
*With this info I go to my local post office, fill a 1093 form and mail with $ 46 payable to Post Master New Haven. Address: Post Master New Have - PO Box 9998 - New haven - CT - 06520-9998
I hope this helps someone out there
Good Luck with these last days!</p>
<p>This is for a PO Box at the Yale Post Office right at the edge of Old Campus. Very convenient, and the $46 is for all four years–you keep the same box number. When boxes arrive, they put a note in your mailbox and hold them for you. I’ve even called there to ask about a box and they very nicely check for you to see if it’s there. I’d recommend getting the box–most residential colleges do not want students’ mail delivered there.</p>
<p>The payment doesn’t cover 4 years - just one.</p>
<p>Hmm…really? Because we only paid the $46 when S entered as a freshmen–he’s a senior now and has used the box all along. He’s never gotten a bill, either.</p>
<p>Clarimom-- you may have been lucky…looked at the letter this morning and it seemed pretty clear that the payment covers one year of an annual fee</p>
<p>Can we ship packages to the PO Box? If yes, any sizes? What is the proper sizes? Thanks in advance for any info.</p>
<p>We paid $44 for the PO Box and $2 for the key, it’s an annual fee, not for 4-years.</p>
<p>Yes, you can ship packages to the PO Box, of any size. Just remember that you must send them by USPS, since only the Postal Service can use PO Boxes.</p>
<p>Thanks so much for the info</p>
<p>And if you’re not familiar with the USPS “flat rate” boxes, they can be a good deal, especially for heavy things like books, snow boots they finally accept that they will actually need, or even large bags of M and Ms.</p>
<p>Blergh, of all my friends going to college, I am the only one who has to shell out $50 to get mail! How silly.</p>
<p>It would be well worth the cost if students actually received lots of letters, like we did in the good old days. For my daughter, texts and e-mails will be her day to day communication, and probably only Grandma will possibly write a letter. It would be pointless for my dd to check the box often. It seems like a waste to me, quite honestly, but I don’t see how we have much choice. I know that if I send her a package, I better e-mail her to tell her to go check her box!</p>
<p>Our plan is to use FedEx ground for those rare occasions when we need to ship a package. For correspondence, email serves most of the needs. The tracking capability also comes in handy so that D will know exactly when to expect her packages. FedEx ground can actually be cheaper than US mail depending on the weight.</p>
<p>I don’t think having a P.O. box is optional, but if you find out that it is, let us know.</p>
<p>Item #21 addresses the issue, but is open to interpretation:
[FAQs</a> | Yale College | Class of 2011](<a href=“Yale College”>Yale College)</p>
<p>(The same info. is in the freshman handbook on page 7.)</p>