Shipping belongings to school beforehand

Noblerare
Mon, 20 Apr 2015 16:01:39 +0000

Hi, I apologize if this is in the inappropriate forum. I am moving to graduate school so I just chose this forum.

I will be attending Georgia Tech as a graduate student this fall. Looking ahead at my summer schedule, I would like to ship my belongings (several pieces of luggage as well as many boxes) to school ahead of time and have them waiting for me when I get there. Ideally, I’d like the school to be able to hold my belongings for 1.5 months (~5-6 weeks) before I arrive. Perhaps it is unorthodox but that is the way that my schedule will work out as I will be visiting some family before I actually leave where I currently live and move to Georgia.

I’d like to hear from you what your experiences have been like in regards to shipping belongings to the school beforehand and if there are any services that you can recommend. I called the GATech post office and housing office but both simply stated that they don’t have any storage space for student belongings and just said to ship my stuff a day or two before I arrive. This was obviously unhelpful tomorrow so I turn to the people here for any advice.

I also Googled around and was wondering if people had used any services like dormroommovers.com or collegeboxes.com.

Thank you for your help.