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November 21, 2007, 02:25 PM ET
Mailrooms Struggle to Keep Up With Student Shoppers
The New York Times makes note of an Internet-era irony: The boom in online retail, it turns out, has left college mailrooms swamped with packages that can only be delivered by snail mail.
The University of Southern California now receives nearly twice as many packages as it did four years ago, according to the Times, and students shopping on eBay, Amazon, and any number of clothing-store sites are driving that surge. And mailroom managers aren’t just getting more packages; they’re getting weirder ones. The State University of New York at Albany has recently handled a dishwasher, a pool table, a refrigerator, and a car muffler. Meanwhile, the USC mailroom recently received a set of car tires — which came unwrapped, with postage affixed and a tag identifying the student who’d placed the order. —Brock Read
Categories: Leadership, Student-Life
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