Lindsey Gooding
Staff Writer

Students living on campus have been given a mailbox and a key, close to their dorm rooms, but students have no need for them, considering the mail continues to be delivered to and handed out at the Campus Mail Center, located east of The Oaks.

A few weeks after school started, students began to enquire about missing mail. Students thought the mail was missing, but it was just not delivered to their assigned boxes in the dorm building.

“I knew that packages were suppose to be picked up at the mail center,” freshman Alyse Beni said. “I had to ask my resident adviser where my mail was, because I was not getting my mail in my box.”

The mailboxes were located in the old Student Center until housing decided to move the boxes into the individual dorm buildings. However, no further contact was made by administration to the Mail Center pertaining to the delivery process. Thus, the mail delivery service has not taken place.

“No one contacted me in the least, in regards to the move,” Said Mail
Center supervisor Jim Brooks. “I was told the mailboxes were being taken
out. We have been trying to make it as available to students as possible.”

The plan was to have the mail delivered to the students’ mailboxes located near their dorm room.

Most students were under the impression that their mail would be delivered to their box, but the mail never came.

“When I did get my mail, I had to sort it and put it in order; I didn’t know when it had come,” Beni said.

There were talks about Housing making the delivery service to the separate boxes, but nothing has taken place as of now.

“We are trying to do as much as we can,” Brooks said. “We are delivering the best service we can. We have everything here; slips are given out if you check your mail.”

The only students who do use their mailboxes are those students currently housed at the Sheraton Hotel, reason being their mailbox is located in the mail center, making it easy access for the mail center to distribute their mail to the mailboxes based on the close location.

However, many students feel that they do not have time to walk over the mail center.

“I have a busy schedule and they don’t even give a slip to let you know if you have mail or not,” Beni said.

Students soon learned that they had to walk over to the mailroom. The thing is a lot of students, like Beni, do not know if they even have mail.

Some students feel it is an inconvenience to walk to the Mail Center, but not all. The issue is there were intentions to deliver the mail and it never happened.

“I do get a lot of mail, but I don’t have a problem with picking it up at the mail center,” International student Kostas Poainos said.

The issue seems to lie in the lack of personal in both the mail center and housing. There are only three people working in the mail center, including two work-study students. The problem is they all have work to do and don’t have time to deliver the mail to the separate dorm rooms, Brooks said.

Lindsey Gooding can be reached at gryde4ever@ yahoo.com.