Leaving your childhood home means you will have to navigate life’s more mundane tasks. The information on this page will help master those tasks, like managing your mail and deliveries, doing your laundry, or making a maintenance request.
Taking care of daily business
Addresses, deliveries, mail, and packages
Addresses, deliveries, mail, and packages
The correct address is everything. Use your correct campus address to receive packages and your mail. For example, if your address is “Walnut Grove Street,” and you use “Walnut Street,” someone else is going to get your stuff.
Manage your deliveries
Delivery people cannot bring items to your room.
If you order food, you must meet the delivery driver at the drive in front of your building.
Amazon, DHL, FedEx, UPS, and USPS make deliveries to the center desk. You will receive an email to your IU address when you have a package ready for pick up. Deliveries are suspended during the Thanksgiving, semester, and spring breaks.
Mail from USPS
Lastly, remember that thing called a mailbox? You will have one and it will be near the center desk. You will receive a combination with instructions on how to open it. You can sign up for informed delivery and other services with the USPS Mobile app available in the Apple Store and Google Play.
Any time you move from your current assignment, you will need to submit your forwarding address through the RPS Mailroom app.
Doing laundry shouldn't be a challenge
Inexperience in a laundry room can lead to floods, mountains of soap suds, and piles of clothes that never seem to dry.
You can avoid these mishaps!
- Read the posted instructions before using the washers.
- Don’t overload the washers or dryers by cramming all your clothes into one or two loads. Clothes need room to swim in the wash and float to dry.
- Measure your detergent! Don’t put in too much.
Get connected
First, you will need to set up your gateways to the internet.
Take out the trash
Residents are responsible for bagging trash and placing it into the nearest trash room. Please do not leave bagged trash or any other trash in hallways, stairwells, or on the ground. Recycling containers are available on each floor.
If you have a medical condition requiring the use of hypodermic needles, do not dispose of the needles in the trash. The center desk can provide you a Sharps container for disposal of the needles. Return the full container to the center desk for disposal.
When and how to request maintenance
If you encounter any of the following, let us know ASAP!
- Clogged or stopped drains and toilets
- Bats, bugs, rodents, or other wild animals in a building
- Broken community kitchen equipment, doors and/or locks, dryers, elevators, windows, furniture, lights, pipes, and washers
- Your room is too cold or hot and/or outside the prescribed temperature range for your building
If it's an emergency, phone your center desk immediately.