General Information and Instructions
Your mailbox number can be found HERE.
For the 2024-25 academic year, the Mail Center will begin accepting student packages on August 1, 2024. All packages must be addressed with the student’s full name, mailbox number and address. Example:
First and Last Name Lehigh University Box #### (your mailbox number can be found HERE) 1 Farrington Square, Suite 200 Bethlehem, PA 18015If you have not yet received your mailbox number, please write "FYS" on the package to identify it as a first-year student package. Please note that your Box # is NOT a PO Box.
The packages will not be delivered to your room; you must pick up the packages from the Mail Center when you arrive on campus.
The Mail Center does not accept packages weighing more than 70 lbs. Packages over 70 lbs. are delivered to Building J at the Mountaintop Campus. For more information on size restrictions and weight of parcels, please check your preferred carrier's website.
If you have any questions regarding packages or mailing services, please call the Mail Center at (610)-758-4193.
First Year students receive their mailbox numbers during the summer and will be notified via email when they become available. Mailbox numbers will be made available through the portal. Your mailbox number is yours to utilize regardless of living location AND will remain your mailbox until you graduate.
Below is a sample of how to format your address on packages and mail.
Your Name
Lehigh University
Box #### (your mailbox number)
1 Farrington Square, Suite 200
Bethlehem, PA 18015
It is important that you DO NOT put P.O. before the box number. This will redirect all mail to the local post office, not Lehigh University.
Picking up mail/packages from the Mail Center
- Simply visit the Mail Center and approach one of the kiosks.
- Swipe your Lehigh ID at one of the kiosks and select whether you want to pick up your mail/package now OR pick it up later. (Please select cancel to pick up later).
- If you select to pick up your mail/package now, our staff will be notified through our automated system and your mail/package will be brought to you at the counter.
IMPORTANT: Please have your Lehigh ID ready for verification.
What if I live in Southside Commons?
All undergraduates are assigned mailboxes at the Mail Center, regardless of where they live. If you choose to send mail and packages to the Mail Center, make sure you use the 1 Farrington Square, Suite 200 address. Students that live in Southside Commons also have access to a mailroom inside of building. To have packages delivered directly to Southside Commons, please use your Southside Commons address.
Package pick-up lockers have been installed on the 4th floor of Hitch House for your convenience. As a resident of Hitch, Maida, or Singleton House, and Farrington Square, you will be able to utilize the lockers for picking up your Mail Center packages.
Pick-Up Instructions and Process:
- Your package will arrive first at the Lehigh University Mail Center.
- Provided a locker space is available, your package will be rerouted to the package lockers on the 4th floor of Hitch House ( or 1 Farrington Square, 2nd floor, near rear entrance to Mail Center off of Asa Drive).
- You will receive TWO email notifications:
- Notification that your package has been scanned into the Mail Center.
- Notification that your package has been placed in the package lockers for pick-up. This second email will contain a barcode which you will use to retrieve your package.
- At the lockers, please scan your barcode using the locker’s barcode scanner on the kiosk.
- The locker containing your package will automatically open. Please retrieve your own package and do not share your barcode.
- Please pick your package up promptly to free a space for the next student.