Students

Student Information:

Addressing your mail and packages:

Your official Muhlenberg address, whether you live on campus or in a M.I.L.E. house, is as follows:

This format is to be used on all mail sent to you and it is important that your box number be included. Please include your middle initial as students often have the same first and last names.  Please do not address mail to “P. O. Box ____” as this is not a post office box and it won't get delivered.  Room numbers, residence hall names, nicknames, illegible handwriting, mail in the name of a parent, or missing box numbers, will also delay delivery of your mail or it may be returned to sender, if it cannot be identified.  

Mail Boxes

Each full time student is assigned a mailbox number which remains the same until they graduate Muhlenberg.  Your letter mail is delivered to your mailboxes in Seegers Union basement. Students are advised to check their mailboxes regularly and to lock them properly after each use. If you are having difficulty opening your mailbox please watch the video below.  If you are still having difficulty after watching the video, please contact the Mailroom manager to arrange for staff to meet you at your mailbox to further assist you.

• Video on Opening Mail Box

• Printable Combination Instructions

Mail Box Combination

Combination numbers are not given out over the phone. You may access your combination by logging onto the HOUSING tile (Adirondack) on your One Login page. You may also come in person to the Mailroom lobby and present your ID to receive your combination.

Instructions for locating mailbox numbers and combinations on OneLogin: " HOUSING" tile.

Mail Delivery

Academic Year

Incoming Mail is delivered daily to the students' mailboxes on the lower level of Seegers Union. There is an outgoing mail slot "US Mail" located near the mailboxes for letter mail which has proper postage.  Please include your return address on your mail. If you need postage for an outgoing letter or package, please come to the Mailroom lobby. All incoming packages are to be picked from the Mailroom. (See Package Pick-up).

Summer

Students who are remaining on campus for the summer, or students who will be away, but would like their magazines forwarded, must complete and submit the Student Mail Summer Registration form.

First-class mail for graduating students and students who are away for the summer will be forwarded for up to three months. Packages will be returned to sender unless prior arrangements are made.

Winter

Students who are remaining on campus for the winter are required to complete and submit the Student Mail Winter Registration form.

First-class mail for students who are away will be forwarded. All other mail will be kept on campus.

Package Pick-up

Your packages are delivered to the Mailroom. Students are required to pick up their own packages and present their student Identification cards at the Mailroom lobby, located in the General Services Building behind the Haas College Center. Please wait until the package has been processed.  We will send you a package notification via your Muhlenberg email when it is ready for pick up. Please see our hours of operation to claim your package.  Because of limited storage facilities, it is recommended that packages be picked up within five business days from the date received.

Shipping packages

Please come to the Mailroom lobby and we will assist you. We accept Cash, Check or Money Orders. Please have your packages clearly addressed, along with your name and Mailbox # in the return address area.  Carriers pick up by 3pm daily so please bring your packages by 2pm the latest to allow time to process it.

Purchases

We sell a limited variety of stamps.  We accept cash or check.  There is an ATM in Seegers for your convenience.  Envelopes may be purchased in the bookstore. For your convenience, we keep some discarded student cardboard boxes in our lobby for students to reuse for shipping out their packages.  Please help yourself to what you need and thank you for recycling. 

Rush/Time Sensitive Deliveries

If you have an item sent to you overnighted/or rushed, please send it via FedEx or UPS, not United States Postal Service (USPS). Choose "morning delivery" and Monday-Friday delivery, so it is delivered while the Mailroom is open. These two carriers come to campus.  If it requires a signature, we will accept it for you.  USPS does not deliver directly to campus; we pick up college mail from them weekday mornings. It is highly recommended to use FedEx or UPS for sensitive items such as passports.

 

Perishable, refrigerated, and fragile shipments are discouraged as the Mailroom does not have adequate storage facilities.  Please note that the Mailroom will not be held responsible for either uncollected or perishable packages, or those that require special handling. Flower arrangements (not boxed) and food orders should go through the information desk in Seegers Union.

Student Clubs and Organizations

Student clubs and organizations are advised to contact the Mailroom at 484 664-3162 for instructions prior to preparing a mailing.  If you would like a mailing to go out to students on campus, please put the envelopes in numerical order by mailbox number.

Mail Forwarding (summer/graduation/withdrawal)

First Class Mail is forwarded over the summer break for returning students. We will discontinue forwarding two weeks before your return to campus.

Graduation/Withdrawal

Each student is responsible for filing a change of address with the United States Postal Service and to notify family, friends, banks, companies, publishers, etc., of their new address when they graduate or withdraw.  Mail for students who are no longer at Muhlenberg will be forwarded for up to three months, after which time it will be returned to sender.