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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 receive their campus mail==History of S.U. SU stands for Student Unionboxes==S. That is because they used to be thereU. Now they boxes are located in the buildings important to Williams students, so we preserve some history of the 4 dining halls depending on the cluster you are intime before Paresky mailboxes. The buildings are:

* Mission Park ===Mailbox size===The [[Baxter]] mailboxes were about three inches wide by four inches tall - Building A* Greylock - Building B* Driscoll 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- Building C* Dodd received package slip bearing the words '''PACKAGE TOO LARGE FOR BOX'''. This slip was so popular that the Baxter mail room sold T- Building Dshirts 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.

To open your box you need a combination ===Mailbox-opening===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 year. If you lose or forget dial to the left three times until reaching the first number, then to 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 Campus Post Office right first, and ask about it. It is absolutely freethus are less confusing for [[First-year|first-years]].

Opening ===Locations during construction===The location of boxes during the Paresky Center construction depended on your geographical location on campus but, contrary to popular belief, did not depend on the [[cluster]] you mail box is a little trickywere in. You have to go left to For example, the first number residents of the combination[[Spencer House|Spencer]], [[Mark Hopkins House|Mark Hopkins]], then go right passing by your second number once and stopping at it the second time[[Bryant House|Bryant]] all had their mailboxes in [[Greylock Dining Hall|Greylock]], and then go left again which would lead one to the third numberbelieve that all members of Spencer [[Neighborhood|neighborhood]] had their mailboxes there. When you feel However, this is not true, as the click, just go right a little bit and residents of [[West College|West]] had to trek all the box is openway to [[Dodd Dining Hall|Dodd]] to get their mail.