The Post Office

Contact: Phone: x4433

The Bennington College Post Office staff, Norma Diaz, Marion Hall, Theresa Lapham, Arthur Lemieux, and Juan Morgan would like to welcome you to Bennington College and to give you some information about your on-campus post office. You can also visit the United States Postal Service website for more information, www.usps.com.

Your Mail
Your official address is:
Your Name
Bennington College
1 College Drive
Bennington, VT 05201-6003

All of your mail (letters, magazines, and packages) sent through the United States Postal Service arrives at this office. You will also receive UPS, Federal Express, Airborne, and DHL packages here. Letters, magazines, and catalogs are placed directly in your mailbox. You will receive a notice of the arrival of packages. These may be picked up at the post office window. When you come to pick up a package, please bring a form of identification, until we get to know you.

If you receive mail under a name other than the one on record, and/or if someone in addition to you will be receiving mail at your assigned box, please let us know. This will help avoid confusion and assure prompt delivery.

Hours: Mail arrives on campus once each day around 9:30 am. It is then sorted and placed in your mailbox by lunch. UPS and Federal Express arrive around noon and notices are in your box by 1:30 pm.

Post office sales hours are 10:00 am to 4:00 pm weekdays and 10:00 am to 12:00 noon on Saturdays. We are a USPS contract station, so during that time you may transact all business as you would at your hometown post office. We sell stamps, stamped envelopes, regular postcards, aerograms, and money orders. You can send out mail or packages certified, insured, or registered. We can sell you the correct postage for all foreign correspondence. We can send items overnight by several methods: Post Office Express Mail, UPS, or Federal Express. Packages may also be sent UPS ground as long as they do not exceed 30 pounds.

Outgoing mail should be in the mail slot by 1:15 p.m., or 3:30 p.m. weekdays and by 11:45 a.m. on Saturdays.

Fax Procedure: We have a fax machine. We charge for both outgoing ($.99 per page in the U.S., or $5 + $1.50 per page for foreign) and incoming (a flat $.79 per fax) transmissions. These may be sent during the post office sales hours. Please be certain that you have the correct outgoing fax number. If you receive a fax, we will put a notice in your box. They must be paid for when you pick them up. The fax number is 1-802-447-4271.