Changes

[[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:

* ==Combination==To open your box you need a combination which you receive at the beginning of the school year, mailed to your home. If you lose or forget that combination, you can always go to the [[Mission Parkcampus post office]] - '''Building A'''and ask about it. It is absolutely free.  ==Opening your mailbox==Opening your mailbox is a little tricky. You have to turn right three times before stopping at the first number of the combination, then go left passing by your second number once and stopping at it the second time, and then go right again to the third number. Now, push the knob in and turn it to the left and pull the box open.* [[Greylock]] - '''Building B'''* [[Driscoll]] - '''Building C'''==History of S.U. boxes==* [[Dodd House]] - '''Building D'''S.U. boxes are important to Williams students, so we preserve some history of the time before Paresky mailboxes.

===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.

Opening ===Locations during construction===The location of boxes during the Paresky Center construction depended on your mailbox is a little trickygeographical location on campus but, contrary to popular belief, did not depend on the [[cluster]] you were 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.