938
edits
Changes
SU box
,Paresky is no longer "new"
[[Category:Williamspeak]]Each student has a personal SU Box where they receive campus and postal mail. SU stands for Student Union, from the time when because the boxes were are located in the student union building (the [[BaxterParesky Center]]). Now they are located in the buildings of the four [[dining hall]]s:
===Mailbox size===The location of your box depends on your geographical location on campus but, contrary to popular belief, does not depend on the [[clusterBaxter]] you are in. For examplemailboxes were about three inches wide by four inches tall -- big enough for a letter, and big enough for a folded magazine or large envelope, but not big enough for the residents majority of three-dimensional packages. Hence the happily-received package slip bearing the words '''PACKAGE TOO LARGE FOR BOX'''. This slip was so popular that the Baxter mail room sold T-shirts bearing these words. The new boxes in [[Spencer House|SpencerParesky]], [[Mark Hopkins House|Mark Hopkins]], are significantly bigger. This allows students to receive DVDs and [[Bryant House|Bryant]] all have other smallish packages in their mailboxes in [[Greylock Dining Hall|Greylock]]SU boxes, which would lead one to believe but it also means that all members of Spencer [[Neighborhood|neighborhood]] have their mailboxes there. However, this is not true, as the residents of [[West College|West]] have top boxes are very high up and the bottom boxes are very close to trek all the way to ground; see [[Dodd Dining Hall|Doddhttp://wso.williams.edu/discuss/comments.php?DiscussionID=758&page=1#Item_0 WSO discussion]] to get their mailon this topic.
==Combination=Mailbox-opening===To open your box you need a combination It used to be, in [[Baxter]] and then in the [[Dining hall|dining halls]] (which you receive at used the beginning of old Baxter mailboxes), that one had to first turn the school yeardial to the left three times until reaching the first number, mailed then to your home. If you lose or forget the right, and so on such that everything was "backwards" from a standard combinationlock. However, you can always go the new Paresky mailboxes turn to the right first, and thus are less confusing for [[campus post officeFirst-year|first-years]] and ask about it. It is absolutely free.