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Discussion => Shipping => Topic started by: b33m01 on November 21, 2011, 09:27 pm
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Can anyone attest to the success of ordering things while living in a college dorm?
My dorm shares a package center with another dorm, basically all packages get collected at a big mail place then distributed to each dorm area's package center, and then you get an email about the package and you come and basically sign that you picked it up.
My school has ~50,000 just so you know.
So anything to worry about you think?
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I'm wondering the same thing as I'll be going back to college in the spring. I think I read a review about a successful dorm delivery once, but I'm not exactly sure. I would think that it wouldn't matter if you went to a large school, but maybe someone has a story they could share?
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Signing for drugs is always a bad idea. Open a PO box?
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well b/c your college has that rule you have to sign for it. i say get a PO box like g4bb3r said. other then your college rule where you have to sign for it shipping to a college works fine. i have mail stuff out to people living at the dorm a few time and they all ways get it. just the same rule as getting it ship to your house or wherever never sign for it being the main one
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Well I'm not directly signing for it, if the package even needs a signature (which it shouldn't if the seller does it the right way) then someone else handles that.
All I do is go to the desk, say my name (I usually don't even need to show my ID) and then sign something on a little touchpad thing. I could put any signature I want on it
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sorry to bump, I just wanted to see if anyone else has an opinion?
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Last year I had about 3 separate international (from pakistan) packages of upwards of 300-400 benzos (xanax, valium, klonopin, dormicum, ativan) sent to my dorm room over the course of about 2 months. Also had 10g of ketamine sent to me at once. Granted I went to a large uni notorious for usage, still there were absolutely no problems. I mean fuck, I had all kinds of sketchy shit sent to my dorm room. Had a mg scale sent (which I guess really shouldn't be sketchy), my roommate had a steel police baton sent, I had all kinds of other miscellaneous pills sent, almost had a quarter of MDMA sent.
I'd say you're pretty much fine. Idk if your uni will be a lot worse in terms of looking at sketchy shit, but yeah--clearly wasn't any bit of a problem for me. ;) Also despite the 3-4 warnings for smoking weed in the dorm room I received.
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IMO, a college is a great place to receive weed. You can get to know the people running the PO without them getting to know you. This makes it easier to tell if something goes wrong before you get yourself into too much trouble.
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The main draw back is that almost any college will throw you out for having almost any amount of any illegal substance mailed 2 you. In my college they take away $8000 in funding for 1 year in addition 2 the criminal sanctions of being caught with weed. So of course most people just snort coke and oxys now.
If I was you I would address it 2 some1 else. The police are busy but some university staff would drop their day if they heard of a student receiving 1/100th gram of weed in the mail 2 the dorm room.
Just tell some1 you know at the same dorm your ordering a present for one of your roommates and you dont want them 2 find it. Im sure you wont have any problem.
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i live in a college dorm and ive sent all my packages here. The mail doesn't go through anything with the university as far as I know, the mailman just delivers the mail to each dorm just like an apartment building. When i have mail, i get an email and go down and pick it up. The only risk in sending it your school address is if anything were ever to happen, you would get in trouble with your school as well as whatever LE wants to do with you.
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Most colleges also have a policy that requires your roomate 2 snitch if your using illegal drug or have weapons. So its important 2 hide any drug use from most roomates. If you can get an apartment that is by the school but not run by the school.
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I would not ship to college dorms. Typically on a (larger) campus the university will have their own mail system and sort it themselves - this essentially doubles the number of times it is sorted / viewed / inspected. Plus, if you are living in the dorms you definitely should not ship there. Find a friend who lives at a 'popular' apartment complex. Its easy to deny if there ends up being a controlled delivery (people change apartments constantly, could have gotten the apt. number mixed up, etc...).
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Ya know, I'm curious about this as well. As I plan on ordering to my dorm mailbox soon.
It is a larger university, and yes we do have our own mail room. Each dorm room gets their own mailbox which has a mailbox number on it. Whenever I want something sent I have to specify this box number. However I do know that they never sort by name, always the mailbox number. As I have received several envelopes addressed to my mailbox with someone else's name on it from the mailbox next to mine. We don't have to sign for our packages either. Despite the fact it's receiving a "second sort", I feel fairly confident my dorm mailbox will work out nicely. I'll be sure to post when I go through with it.
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The main draw back is that almost any college will throw you out for having almost any amount of any illegal substance mailed 2 you. In my college they take away $8000 in funding for 1 year in addition 2 the criminal sanctions of being caught with weed. So of course most people just snort coke and oxys now.
This is a good point ... a college or university can throw you out without convicting you. So the bar is lower. If your RA (what do you call a RA in Europe? Dorm Master?) heard from someone who heard from someone that heard from your roommate that you're getting awesome weed sent to you, maybe they start snooping around your mail before they put it in your box at the dorm?
Does anyone know if a University or College or a summer camp needs a search warrant to open your mail if it's delivered to a building on their private property? That's an interesting question. Now there's not much left to do if they decided to open a package sent to you, found drugs, and kicked you out ... but could you be prosecuted in that situation?
Or maybe you could sue the school / camp / whatever ... of course in the mean time you're still thrown out and trying to explain to people why.