News for and about University of Portland faculty and staff.
New hours of operation for postal and shipping services in the Printing and Mail Services Office will take place effective Monday, January 4, according to director Mary Scroggins. The new hours will be 8 a.m. to noon; 1 p.m. to 4 p.m., Monday through Friday, with faculty and staff personal mailing package hours from 10 to 11:30 a.m.
For more information contact Scroggins at scroggin@up.edu.
The U.S. Postal Service has announced increases from 2-4.1 percent overall for Priority, Express, Media, International, and special services such as Certified Mail starting January 26, 2020. First-class letter mail remains the same with no increase and is .55 for a first-class stamp. Mailing services director Mary Scroggins would like to provide this information as a service to UP faculty, staff, and students. Scroggins most likely had nothing to do with the increased rates.
For more information contact printing and mailing services at x7000 or printjobs@up.edu.
Printing services is announcing the launch for their new Web to Print software program, “My Order Desk,” according to director Mary Scroggins. All future print requests and paper orders will be placed through the new site. The program offers tools to track and see costs, view project histories, order reprints, and more.
To get started, please follow this link for instructions to sign up and begin placing all of your requests via the website located at myapps.up.edu.
Please call printing services at x7200 or email printjobs@up.edu for questions, comments, and feedback.
Due to the high volume of packages that are received for on-campus students and official University of Portland business, personal packages for faculty, staff, and off-campus students are not to be sent to the University address, according to Mary Scroggins, printing and mailing services. For more information contact the mail center at x7179.
All spring 2020 book orders and course pack submissions are due to printing services no later than Friday, November 1. The lead time is needed to assure all copyrights are properly adhered to and to allow time for large large print orders.
Even if your class does not use a textbook, please let Barnes and Noble know.
For course pack submissions: Submit course pack materials to printing services no later than November 1, 2019 to ensure they are on the Barnes and Noble shelves prior to the start of classes.
For more information email printjobs@up.edu or call x8101; please ask for Kassie Hansen.
Due to the high volume of packages that are received for on-campus students and official University of Portland business, personal packages for faculty, staff, and off-campus students are not to be sent to the University address, according to Mary Scroggins, printing and mailing services. For more information contact the mail center at x7179.
All faculty and instructors must turn in their course pack materials for summer classes to the printing services office as soon as possible, according to Kassie Hansen, printing services. In addition, course packs for fall 2017 are due before leaving campus at the conclusion of spring semester. The lead time is needed so printing services staff can obtain copyright permissions and organize the packs for production before the start of summer and fall semesters. Submit requests to printjobs@up.edu.
For more information contact printing services at 7200 or hansenk@up.edu.
Faculty and staff can bring personal mail and packages to the printing and mailing services office during the hours of 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Monday-Friday for processing. Other hours of the day are reserved for students and official departmental mailings.
Please remember that packages need to be fully sealed and addressed. Due to postal regulations, personal International mail must be submitted and paid for through Click and Ship (USPS.com) before mailing services can deliver completed packages for processing to the local post office.
A reminder about receipt of personal packages: Due to the quantity of packages that are received for on-campus students and University business, personal packages are not to be sent to the University of Portland address.
For more information contact Mary Scroggins at scroggin@up.edu.
President’s day is celebrated this year on Monday, February 15, which means no incoming mail delivery, according to Mary Scroggins, mailing services. Outgoing mail must be received in the mail center by 2:30 p.m. to be taken to the downtown post office.
For more information contact Scroggins at 7179 or scroggin@up.edu.
Due to staff holiday luncheons on December 18 and 21 there will be disruptions in mail and package services and mail center closures on those days. On Friday, December 18, from 12:30 to 3 p.m., there will be no afternoon deliveries of mail or packages to all campus locations due to the University Relations Christmas party. There will also be no afternoon mail service on Monday, December 21 due to the staff Christmas party. Please plan accordingly.
For more information contact Mary Scroggins, supervisor, at scroggin@up.edu.