Mail Services

What does Mail Services do for you?

• Manages Student Mail Center, located at the Wang Campus Center.

• Processes incoming letters and packages from the U.S. Postal Service (including numbered, insured, and certified), and packages from UPS, FedEx, Amazon and various other carriers.

• Provides notification of receipt of all items for students requiring a signature through e-mail. Note: students are responsible for package pick-up when it requires a signature. Rides to the Wang campus center are not provided, but students can borrow a dolly if they leave their cell phone with mail services for the duration of use. Students may send another student in their place to pick up packages on their behalf.

• Forwards student mail when students are on leave or have graduated. We also forward domestic mail over the summer.

Addressing

To ensure timely delivery of your mail, please address it appropriately with the following formatting:

Name*
Unit XXXX
Wellesley College
21 Wellesley College Rd.
Wellesley MA 02481

*Please refrain from the use of nicknames, as it slows down mail services or causes mail to be returned to sender.

IMPORTANT: Please be sure to include “Wellesley” in the street name. There is a residence in town at 21 College Rd. that often receives packages when they are addressed to 21 College Rd. instead of 21 Wellesley College Rd.

Addressing for medication that needs refrigeration

Name
Health Services
106 Central St.
Wellesley, MA 02481

Move-in and receiving packages

The majority of packages delivered to the school are scanned in for the student and ready for pickup the same day. If a delivery happens too late in the day, the package will be ready the following day.

Larger packages received during the first few weeks of the fall semester will be delivered to your residence hall. You will not receive an email for these. Please check the lobby of your residence hall for any larger packages during this time.

Shipping to an Amazon locker on campus

In addition to offering package pick-up at the Student Mail Center, we offer the option to have your Amazon deliveries shipped directly to an Amazon locker on campus. To do so, follow these steps:

1. Prepare your Amazon order.

2. Select “Amazon Locker—Vasco” or “Amazon Locker—Falta” as the pick-up location for Wellesley, MA.

3. When the package is delivered, you will receive an email from Amazon.

4. Students will have up to three days after the package is delivered to pick up the package. After three days, Amazon will pick up unclaimed packages and issue a refund.

Where is my package?

If you were expecting a package and have not received an email notification or found it in your unit box, you can email the tracking number to rk101@wellesley.edu.

Reasons you have not been notified of your package

• It was delivered to the wrong place. There is a residence in town at 21 College Rd. that often receives packages when they are addressed to 21 College Rd. instead of 21 Wellesley College Rd. Also, Babson College has a very similar address of 21 Babson College Dr. and delivery companies often deliver to the wrong school.
• There are many carriers including Amazon, Lasership, Optima, UniUni and others that have a different driver every time who has not been to the school and leaves packages in the wrong place.
• The package had the wrong name on it. If someone orders a package for a student, they will often accidentally have it addressed to their name instead of the student’s.

Mail forwarding

• Per USPS rules, we are unfortunately not able to forward international mail. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.

• Mail for graduates is forwarded domestically for three months only—to avoid problems with your mail, please notify all of your correspondents.

• Mail Services does not forward student mail over winter break. Please be sure to notify all correspondents of your mailing address over winter break. This is very important for graduate school materials.

• For summer forwarding, if the student will not be at their home address, please enter the change of address and the dates the new address will be in effect into Workday. To make these changes, visit Workday > Personal Information > Address > Edit.