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[[Category:Williamspeak]]Each student has a personal SU Boxwhere they receive campus and postal mail. SU stands for Student Union, because the boxes are located in the student union building (the [[Paresky Center]]).

All students in Williams College have their personal SU Boxes where they ==Combination==To open your box you need a combination which you receive their campus mail. They are located in at the buildings beginning of the 4 dining halls depending on school year, mailed to your home. If you lose or forget that combination, you can always go to the cluster you are in[[campus post office]] and ask about it. It is absolutely free. The buildings are:* Mission Park - Building A* Greylock - Building B* Driscol - Building C* Dodd - Building D

To open ==Opening your mailbox==Opening your box you need mailbox is a combination which you receive little tricky. You have to turn right three times before stopping at the beginning first number of the school year. If you lose or forget that combination, you can always then go left passing by your second number once and stopping at it the second time, and then go right again to the Campus Post Office third number. Now, push the knob in and ask about turn it. It is absolutely freeto the left and pull the box open.

Opening you ==History of S.U. boxes==S.U. boxes are important to Williams students, so we preserve some history of the time before Paresky mailboxes. ===Mailbox size===The [[Baxter]] mailboxes 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 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 box is a little trickyroom sold T-shirts bearing these words. The new boxes in [[Paresky]] are significantly bigger. This allows students to receive DVDs and other smallish packages in their SU boxes, but it also means that the top boxes are very high up and the bottom boxes are very close to the ground; see [http://wso.williams.edu/discuss/comments.php?DiscussionID=758&page=1#Item_0 WSO discussion] on this topic. You have  ===Mailbox-opening===It used to go be, in [[Baxter]] and then in the [[Dining hall|dining halls]] (which used the old Baxter mailboxes), that one had to first turn the dial to the left to three times until reaching the first number of , then to the right, and so on such that everything was "backwards" from a standard combinationlock. However, then go the new Paresky mailboxes turn to the right passing by your second number once first, and stopping at it thus are less confusing for [[First-year|first-years]]. ===Locations during construction===The location of boxes during the second timeParesky Center construction depended on your geographical location on campus but, and then go left again contrary to popular belief, did not depend on the third number[[cluster]] you were in. When you feel For example, the clickresidents of [[Spencer House|Spencer]], [[Mark Hopkins House|Mark Hopkins]], just go right a little bit and [[Bryant House|Bryant]] all had their mailboxes in [[Greylock Dining Hall|Greylock]], which would lead one to believe that all members of Spencer [[Neighborhood|neighborhood]] had their mailboxes there. However, this is not true, as the residents of [[West College|West]] had to trek all the box is openway to [[Dodd Dining Hall|Dodd]] to get their mail.