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No problem, and tell your daughter to remember “Morse always wins”! ;)</p>
<p>Not sure if this has been discussed, but we are on the west coast and would love to purchase a couple items and have them shipped to Yale directly by the store (Son will be living in Vanderbilt on old Campus) </p>
<p>The question is we don’t have a PO box number yet for him and not sure if the store (Macy’s) will ship via USPS or UPS. If we just give them his Saybrook College street address used for UPS shipments, and the store uses USPS will he ever get it? </p>
<p>Also, the shipping instructions on the Yale Website says to not ship before August 10… which is this Friday, so if I order the item from the store on Friday and they ship it for delivery sometime next week, will the post office or residential college store it untill move in day?</p>
<p>See below:</p>
<p>U.S. mail sent to you at Yale without your post office box number will be subject to delay in delivery, and in some cases will be returned to the sender. There is no direct delivery by U.S. mail to Yale buildings, so do not include the street address of your residential college or dormitory on packages sent by U.S. mail.</p>
<p>dadinsacto, check out post #1850 on this thread from CCparent. It’s very helpful regarding this shipping issue.</p>
<p>As far as I understand it, this is the way to go:</p>
<p>Have student sign up online for a Yale PO box. US Mail will go to this. From the Yale Freshman Handbook: “In order to receive mail on campus, all students are required by U.S. postal regulations to have a U.S. post office box. You can apply on line for a post office box at <a href=“http://www.usps.com;%5B/url%5D”>www.usps.com;</a> see yalecollege.yale.edu/ content/mail-and-shipping for detailed instructions.”</p>
<p>For UPS packages: use the Residential College street address, even when kid is a freshman & not living in the RC. From [Mail</a> and Shipping | Yale College](<a href=“http://yalecollege.yale.edu/content/mail-and-shipping]Mail”>http://yalecollege.yale.edu/content/mail-and-shipping) :
“Address all UPS packages following the sample below:
Your Name
Yale University
Your Residential College Name*
New Haven, CT 06520
*Include your college address below your college name only if required by the local UPS shipping office: Berkeley College, 205 Elm Street; Branford College, 74 High Street; Calhoun College, 189 Elm Street; Davenport College, 275 Park Street; Timothy Dwight College, 345 Temple Street; Jonathan Edwards College, 68 High Street; Morse College, 302–304 York Street; Pierson College, 261 Park Street; Saybrook College, 242 Elm Street; Silliman College, 505 College Street; Ezra Stiles College, 19 Tower Parkway; Trumbull College, 241 Elm Street.”</p>
<p>When you are not sure if sender will use UPS or USPS, use the dual address as described by CCparent in post 1850 (a combo of RC street address & Yale PO box).According to CCParent, “Here is the verbatim text from the USPS Web site (“Basic Standards for All Mailing Services”):
Dual Address
Mail with a dual address (both a street address and a Post Office box number) is delivered to the address immediately above the city and state (or to the Post Office box if both the street address and Post Office box are on the same line). If a ZIP+4 code or 5-digit ZIP Code is used, it must correspond to the address element immediately above the city and state (or with the Post Office box number in the address if both the street address and Post Office box are on the same line). These restrictions also apply to return addresses on mail (for more information, see Publication 28, Postal Addressing Standards).”</p>
<p>I take this to mean that the dual address would be:
Your Name
Yale University
Your Residential College Name
Residential College street address
PO Box number
New Haven, CT 06520</p>
<p>I hope this is correct - I’m also a new parent.</p>
<p>Also a newbie, but I from what I understand, the students are only able to apply (and pay) for their P.O. Boxes, but will not receive the actual box number until they arrive on campus and show ID. This sounds like it would present a problem with using USPS for shipping prior to move-in.</p>
<p>I live in Southern CA and I am shipping all the things for my son straight to the hotel where we will be staying. We informed the hotel and they are okay with it. May be you can ship to your hotel.</p>
<p>Yes, you don’t get the PO box number until you show up on campus, even if you apply and pay for it online.</p>
<p>Yep - not being able to get a PO Box number is the main issue for us because we were hoping to ship some items directly from the stores using the dual address method (but can’t since we only have a UPS address until we get to campus). Too bad we can’t get the PO Box number ahead of time - already signed up online.</p>
<p>Bulldog2016. Hi, I am the parent of a senior with first hand experience on student property insurance. I HIGHLY recommend the Student Personal Property policy through HF&C (Haylor,Freyer & Coon). You may have already received their brochure from Yale. Because we have a high deductible on our home owners policy and being that my son was a computer science major with computers, monitors, programs etc., we thought it may be a wise thing to do. Actually, being a cyclist…his most expensive possession was his high-end bike. Well, the bike was stolen, locked securely(so we thought) at 6AM right in front of Payne Whitney Gym!!!</p>
<p>HF&C paid every last cent on that claim, promptly and efficiently…no questions asked. My son was on top of it, filing a police report and itemizing all the bike parts, however, he was stressing because he had a road race in 2 short weeks. By the race, he had a new bike and I am talking about one costing $$$. I believe there is a $100.00 deductible on electronics, but still it is a great safeguard considering it not only covers them at school, but year-round and world-wide.</p>
<p>After that experience, I took out the policy recommended by Connecticut College for my younger son. He proceeded this summer, here at home, to spill a glass of water on his open Mac Book computer! Again, the student property policy through his college covered the damage. What I am saying is… go with the policy that Yale recommends, you’d be hard put to find something better.</p>
<p>Best to ship to your hotel. We were at the New Haven Hotel, they kept our packages till we got there. The Omni also accepts packages if you’re staying there. Most convenient way to get things across bed bath and beyond etc will deliver to your hotel.</p>
<p>Dadinsacto, my daughter didn’t see her bedding for a few weeks because of they shipped USPS instead of UPS, etc. The hotel suggestion is a good one. Also, you can register at a Bed Bath and Beyond on the West Coast and pick up in a CT store.</p>
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Many years ago, at the beginning of each school year, DS’s check-in luggage always had his bedding and clothes he needed on the day (or the next day) he arrived – unless he lost his luggage.</p>
<p>He did not store his bedding at school over the summer. When he arrives at campus, it is always very late in the evening. We do not want him to spend hours washing his bedding right after a long, tiring flight.</p>
<p>This was back in those years when each passenger could check in two pieces of luggage free of charge.</p>
<p>Funny, I have a suitcase with my son’s bedding in it and a couple of towels. Not leaving that to chance again.</p>
<p>NEW Parents…Your Freshman should read the information regarding move-in and shipping carefully. They are not assigned a Box# until they go to the PO to pickup keys.
Shipping done via UPS etc is held in trucks for pick up. There is information about this in the freshman handbook.
Don’t pre-ship stuff to your freshman to the residential colleges.</p>
<p>We too bought insurance for K1s stuff…I think we went with about $3k
We called our homeowners, and it was a much better coverage to handle it as a separate policy…we also installed the computer tracking software.</p>
<p>Thanks for all of the great info everyone!
In looking over the schedule of events for move-in day and Saturday and I am trying to figure out the best time for any last minute shopping trips with the suite mates. There is a panel discussion with Dean Miller at 2:30 and the Masters’ Open Houses at 4:00, then the freshman meetings start at 8:00. So, does that give us a few hours between 5:00 and 8:00 to grab a bite to eat and make a run to Ikea?</p>
<p>I heard (but was not personally experienced) hat Ikea is packed during move-in day.
We did most of our shopping at a Target Store and some furniture store in North Haven (floor lamp, light bulbs, a small cabinet with a lock – there were some break-in incidents in one of years DS was there.) There appears to be a Home Depot on the same freeway exit as well. There is a “Friendly” (or a similar low-end restaurant) where you could eat and rest a little bit if the time is tight.</p>
<p>It is busy that time of year and not an easy store to get in and out of fast. There is a Walmart in Hamden that is close and around that same plaza is Bed Bath and Beyond and Kohl’s.
North Haven has Target, Home Depot, Staples, etc. Orange, about the same distance, another direction, has Walmart, Target, Lowes, Bed, Bath and Beyond and others all on the Post Rd.
You don’t have to go far for most things if you have a car.</p>
<p>This is great - thanks! We are not really very familiar with the area, so it’s good to know that we can get what is needed from many sources.</p>
<p>I read on this board awhile ago that one poster felt that the President meet-and-greet was not worth the time and effort. Any other votes from people who have been there and done that?</p>
<p>The President’s reception is basically one very long receiving line. Unless you have some overwhelming desire to wait two hours to shake Mr. Levin’s hand, I highly recommend skipping the event.</p>