Student Mail Services offers current students a forwarding service for 1st class mail. Only mail and packages sent through the U.S. Postal Service can be forwarded. However, it may take the USPS up to five weeks to deliver forwarded mail.

Letters and packages from private carriers (i.e., FedEx, UPS) cannot be sent to another address by Student Mail Services and may be returned to the sender.

All students requesting mail forwarding need to notify banks, credit card providers and other organizations that send time-sensitive material of their change of address in order to receive correspondence in a timely fashion.

To request mail forwarding, please complete the Mail Forwarding Request Form or contact Student Mail Services.

• Graduates
• Study Abroad
• Leave of Absence
• Summer/Winter Break

Graduates

Graduates may request to have Student Mail Services forward 1st class mail for one month. The deadline to submit a request is June 1st.  All forwarding services cease on July 1st.

Graduates must also notify the U.S. Postal Service of a change of address upon graduation. Official changes of address can be done online or at any USPS branch office.

Study Abroad

Students studying abroad may request to have Student Mail Services forward 1st class mail while abroad. Students must notify Mail Services upon their return to Columbia, so forwarding services may be stopped.

Leave of Absence

Students may request to have Mail Services forward 1st class mail for one month and to reserve their current mailbox number for up to two semesters. All Lerner Hall mailboxes are in a student's name for 4 years. If a student takes any time off, a request for extension is required or the student's mailbox may be reassigned before they graduate. Students must contact Student Mail Services for box extensions.

Summer/Winter Break

If desired, students can request to have Mail Services forward 1st class mail over the summer. In order to do so, a Mail Forwarding Request Form must be submitted.

Prior to leaving campus at the end of spring semester, students are strongly encouraged to notify banks, credit card providers and other organizations that sent time-sensitive material of an address change. Mail forwarding automatically stops August 1.

Mail forwarding is not recommended for winter break.