<p>Hi everyone,
I need to mail letters to a few profs in building 3 and 35, and I have a friend in Boston who can drop off the letters for me. However, he can only do this on the weekend. So for those who are familiar with buildings 3 and 35, are they open on weekends, and do the professors or their assistants have a place to drop off mail during non working hours? Thanks</p>
<p>There’s no general rule about assistants having after-hours drop boxes for mail (or even for professors having assistants). Is there a reason you don’t want to send the letters via postal mail? Putting the building/room address on them will be sufficient to get them to the professors via normal channels.</p>
<p>Hi Mollie,
Thanks for the input.
Mostly because I’m in Canada and it would take 5 days to arrive in Cambridge, and it’s $20 to send each letter. </p>
<p>Maybe I can send just one package to the main department office, with letters addressed to each prof sealed in their own envelopes, and they will deliver it to the respective profs? Is there such a thing as a “main” department office? </p>
<p>Or even just have my friend drop off all the envelopes at the main office, since they most likely do have an after hour drop-box.</p>
<p>Or if that’s not possible, perhaps I can get my friend in Boston to snailmail each envelope to the profs, but I don’t know how delayed or reliable snailmail in the States is.</p>
<p>I am trying to get these letters in early next week.</p>
<p>I would just have the friend send them through interdepartmental mail. I mean, in the case that the profs don’t have drop boxes. You only need the name and building/room number. Your friend can drop them off in the interdepartmental mail system on campus. There are boxes all along the infinite.</p>
<p>^I would say that would be the best solution given the ridiculous price of international mail.</p>
<p>excellent!!! I’m assuming there are no seperate interdepartmental mail systems for different faculties, that they’re free, and that they are accessible on the weekends?</p>
<p>Yup – just one system for all of MIT, free, and there are big white mailboxes in hallways all over campus.</p>
<p>awesome.
Thanks Mollie and Laura!</p>