<p>You can mail UPS to any student at 135 Prospect Street. No need to get a UPS box, or deal with the post office.</p>
<p>What is 135 Prospect St?</p>
<p>Yale Student Receiving Center - have not used it, we have stuck with the USPS and have not had any problems aside from a day or two delay.</p>
<p><a href=“http://yalecollege.yale.edu/new-students/class-2018/planning-your-move/mail-and-shipping”>http://yalecollege.yale.edu/new-students/class-2018/planning-your-move/mail-and-shipping</a></p>
<p>"Shipments before the Beginning of Fall Term
UPS, DHL, and Fed Ex can be picked up at Yale Student Receiving Center located at 135 Prospect Street. The schedule will be available in August. You cannot ship your items via the United Stations Postal Service (USPS) before your arrival to campus. See “Shipments after Fall Term Begins” below.</p>
<p>You will receive an email when your UPS, DHL, or Fed Ex package is scanned at Yale Student Receiving Center. Due to limited space, please pick up your package(s) within 24 hours after you arrive to campus. Unclaimed packages will be returned to sender.</p>
<p>Consult your local delivery service office for information about the timing of your shipment and proper methods of packaging. It is best to send all of your packages at the same time for shipment integrity and efficient delivery. Do not ship before Friday, August 8. Address all UPS, DHL, and Fed Ex packages following the sample below:</p>
<p>(Your Name)
Yale University
(Your Residential College Name)
135 Prospect Street
New Haven, CT 06511</p>
<p>If you decide to use a motor freight carrier, you should make your own arrangements with the carrier of your choice. Please make sure that you discuss the details of storage and the pickup of your belongings with your carrier."</p>
<p>Ahhh… @musicmerit,</p>
<p>Seeing that we are so close, I never paid much attention to that! Thanks for clarifying.</p>
<p>@musicmerit, but maybe I’m missing something, doesn’t that refer to only before start of fall term?</p>
<p>Yes, that website does. But here is an email received by my D this summer. It implies use throughout the year. Like I said, we have not tried it.</p>
<p>"Dear Sophomores, Juniors and Seniors,</p>
<p>Please read the following information as it contains NEW information about receiving mail and shipping packages to campus.</p>
<p>Shipments via United Parcel Service (UPS), Federal Express (FedEx), DHL, or motor freight carrier i.e. R&L Carriers, Home Direct, Pilot or Roadrunner, etc.:</p>
<p>NEW - UPS, DHL, and Fed Ex can be picked up at Yale Student Receiving Center located at Founders Hall, 135 Prospect Street. You will receive an email when your package is scanned at the Yale Student Receiving Center. Due to limited space, please pick up your package promptly. Unclaimed packages will be returned to sender.</p>
<p>Consult your local delivery service office for information about the timing of your shipment and proper methods of packaging. It is best to send all of your packages at the same time for shipment integrity and efficient delivery. Address all UPS, DHL, and Fed Ex packages following the sample below:</p>
<p>Your Name
Yale University
Your Residential College Name
135 Prospect Street
New Haven, CT 06511</p>
<p>If you decide to use a motor freight carrier, you should make your own arrangements with the carrier of your choice. Please make sure that you discuss the details of storage and the pickup of your belongings with your carrier."</p>
<p><a href=“Shipping Information | Branford College”>Shipping Information | Branford College;
Here is a Branford college website with the same info., but different PO box addressing instructions…</p>
<p>"Shipping Information
Mail: USPS does not deliver to 74 High Street, and if mail is addressed to the Master’s Office, it is often delayed. Mail to students should always be addressed to the following:</p>
<p>[STUDENT’S NAME]
PO BOX [STUDENT’S PO BOX NUMBER]
NEW HAVEN CT 06520-[LAST 4 DIGITS OF PO BOX NUMBER]</p>
<p>Packages: During the academic year, UPS, FedEx, and DHL packages arrive to 135 Prospect Street (203-432-3766), and students will normally receive an e-mail when their package arrives. </p>
<p>Students will be required at all times to show ID to receive their packages.</p>
<p>Packages should be addressed as follows:</p>
<p>Students Name</p>
<p>Yale University – College Name</p>
<p>135 Prospect St.</p>
<p>New Haven, CT 06520"</p>
<p>I checked another college website and it just links to the before term info. That is a class of 2018 site, so maybe it meant that was the only option before getting their PO Box. But it would still also be valid during the term.</p>
<p>Clear as mud, huh? </p>
<p>Clear as mud is right. The line “It is best to send all of your packages at the same time for shipment integrity and efficient delivery.” still makes it sound as though it’s for sending packages to school prior to school opening; how could one send all of the packages at the same time otherwise?</p>
<p>As an incredibly proud parent of a Yale student, I do chuckle (to myself) that the official writing for Yale is sometimes not very clear. The rules about sending all SAT or ACT results, for example, seems to trip up applicants every year although I find it clear enough to understand. </p>
<p>After being burned by every possible method of package delivery with kid1, got a UPS box by the time kid 2 started. No regrets. We’ve never had any problems with the UPS store. Just address to 24 Dixwell Ave and put the box number as line two or Apt #/suite# etc.(24 Dixwell Ave, #xxx, New Haven, CT) It’s a family run business and the people are very nice and helpful. I’ll have to look back at credit card receipts to check the price for a yearly rental.</p>
<p>Another rant on the yale USPS. DH overnighted to DD some upscale chocolates (the kind that are wrapped in cooling blankets to protect them from potential heat) for valentine’s day. Yale PO received it the next day. It was "not available for pick up by dd until 1 month later…well after valentine’s day had passed and well after the cooling blankets had heated up… </p>
<p>We got a box at the Dixwell UPS store this semester and it may well be the best $176 I ever spent! The amount of stress and aggravation caused by countless waits in line at the post office, only to be disappointed, is such a distant memory. I read these posts – some with good Yale Station experiences, some with bad, with a feeling of extreme relief that I no longer have to participate in these conversations with my kid. I personally reached out to Yale in my daughter’s freshman year thinking that they MUST be interested in changing the situation – I was wrong. It is what it is, and for us, it’s no longer an issue. And as stated, the people at the Dixwell location are kind, professional, helpful – they email my daughter every time she has a package. She’s been there three times and they already know her by sight and run to grab her packages as she enters the store. Priceless :)</p>
<p>^^^When I go up this weekend for the JE reunion I am definitely getting her a box. Thanks Yaliesmom!!</p>
<p>Yes, we use them a lot for shipping items. Very nice. They offer a Yale discount, not sure how much though. They also allow students to share the boxes. If anyone is interested, pm me!</p>
<p>Just spoke to Manjit Singh at UPS Store. Yale students pay $13.00/month and he suggests students share the box/service. Up to 3 students can share. </p>
<p>Thank you NewHavenCT Mom - when I am up there this weekend I will have my D see if other suitemates want to share with her.</p>
<p>Wow, what a hot mess with the USPS Post Boxes. Never had an issue within my kid’s time. Hope it gets better.</p>
<p>^^ My son is a senior and I’ve never understood why Yale has not done what other colleges do – have individual mailboxes and postal storage rooms in the dorms, which are manned by students on work study. In that way, mail is delivered to the residential colleges by the US Postal Service, Fedex, UPS, DHL etc and the sorting and delivery is done by students. It’s a no-brainer that works very well at my daughter’s college. Some parents on CC have claimed that Yale doesn’t have the room to do that, but I’ve been in the basement of several residential colleges and there seems to be plenty of space that could be reserved for this purpose. Of course, I’m sure Yale makes a ton of money from leasing space to the US Government for their abysmal mail delivery service, so I doubt it will happen anytime soon.</p>
<p>I don’t think Yale makes a “ton” of money - the rent is a drop in the bucket. The cost of administering an internal mail system would be costly and would invite labor tensions with a couple of unions. The school has to manage a difficult relationship with New Haven and its supply of labor which Yale seems to do quite successfully by offering decent wages. Adding mail delivery would be a very expensive proposition.</p>
<p>^^ I disagree. Yale receives money directly from the US government to help employ every student on the federal work study program (<a href=“Federal Work-Study (FWS) Program”>http://www2.ed.gov/programs/fws/index.html</a>), so I don’t think it would significantly cost Yale that much more money to change they way students get mail. FWIW: My daughter has no issue at Harvard getting mail or packages, and their mail delivery system relies on students to do the sorting, handling and delivery – and there hasn’t been any labor tensions or issues with unions. If Harvard can find a way to do it with their testy relationship with the city of Cambridge, I think Yale could find a way to do it with New Haven!</p>
<p>And, as a parent I would much rather pay Yale an additional $60 every year for a post office box in my son’s college, rather than pay that same money to the post office for a PO box with lousy service.</p>
<p>^ Amen, gibby. Our family has visited many colleges with our two kids, and Yale is the only one we have seen that does it this way. My best friend’s son at a huge state U gets a text message when he gets a package, and never needs to stand on line to retrieve it. I had the same experience at a school much larger than Yale. Mail was delivered to the residence hall and sorted into mailboxes (and packages held) by students paid to work the desk.</p>
<p>If the mail system isn’t rethought by the time the new residential colleges open, the situation will only get worse with hundreds more undergrads added to the population. </p>
<p>Can anyone shed more light on this story?</p>
<p><a href=“Illegal riders tear down Elm Street - Yale Daily News”>http://yaledailynews.com/blog/2014/10/09/illegal-riders-tear-down-elm-street/</a></p>