The UTM Post Office has developed a user-friendly website to help keepstudents informed about their mail. You can get to the website by selecting “post office” from the quick links on the UTM homepage. Along with a 3 by 5 index card that can be picked up at the post office, the website explains many things about the postal service operations. It also contains a phone number to the U.S. postal service as well as information about how to change your mailing address, and a link called “student guidelines,” that makes it easy for students to get postal information. The website explains how the postal service works for those who live on campus as well as commuters and how packages are handled.

The UTM Post Office faces many dilemmas when handling student mail. Two of the most frustrating are the differing zip codes for campus (38238) and for the city of Martin (38237), and commuters lack of knowledge that they have a campus mailbox in which they receive important information such as senior standing. As a result of this and because of U.S. postal regulation, the UTM Post Office can only hold packages for two weeks and regular mail for a semester. Then, these must be returned to the senders.

The UTM Post Office is trying to inform students of these problems through their website and the index card. “The biggest problem is that students are not informed of how the postal service operates and that is the reason we encourage students to look at the website,” said UTM postmaster Peter Zeigler.