USU post office moves locations joining Aggie Quick Print
Students walking down the hallway in the TSC will now notice a familiar feature missing. The Post Office has been locked up with a banner saying it has moved to the Aggie Quick Print, located further down the hallway on the first floor.
Greg Christiansen, director of Aggie Print & Mail, said the move is permanent. Christiansen saw the change as a way to consolidate resources, especially after the Aggie Quick Print was remodeled and expanded last year.
“We believe there is more space here,” Christiansen said. “We have more space to grow and more services to offer. This move just allows us to have more employees to help customers when they come. We’re able to consolidate and actually improve.”
One new service will be self-service smart lockers where students can have packages shipped. Christiansen said this will enable students to pick up their packages outside of traditional work hours.
“Right now, you have the traditional P.O. boxes on the wall that have been there for 200 years.” Christiansen said. “Now we’re putting in what they call Smart Lockers. When mail comes for you, we receive it, and it goes into the Smart Locker. When we put it in there, you will automatically get a text saying you have mail, and you can come over and pick it up.”
Christiansen said the same postal services will still be offered through the Aggie Quick Print. Allen Wolcott, who staffed the post office, has moved to the new location.
“They said they can teach an old dog new tricks. I sure hope they can,” Wolcott said.
Wolcott said he is excited to continue offering the same postal services he has for almost 20 years while learning more about the copy center.
“Allen moved, so the post office moved,” Christiansen said. “All the resources, information and knowledge are still here, and it combines with the opportunities in the copy center.”
Those with current P.O. boxes shouldn’t be affected by the move beyond a transition period expected to take a few days.
“There’s a really a wide range of people that have P.O. boxes here because they want a secure place to have their mail,” Christiansen said. “That’ll just continue. There will be a transition, but more than likely, if you have purchased or rented a P.O. box from us, it will go from that location to this location.”
Christiansen declined to comment on any plans in the works for the recently vacated space but emphasized that the TSC is a student-centered building.
“Once we get the Smart Lockers installed, at some point, that space down there will revert to the students,” Christiansen said. “The TSC is a student building, so it’ll go back to the students.”