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Universities


Is there a more hectic time than August on a college campus? Students and their parents have shipped everything imaginable to prepare for the school year: furniture, computers, chemicals, clothes, mountain bikes and the proverbial box of cookies. To distribute it all, some universities use a central receiving area where students come down to pick up their mail. Others, utilize students as couriers to deliver parcels to dozens of buildings spread out over hundreds of acres. And it's not just student who receive parcels, but faculty and their staff who await time-sensitive teaching materials. While some universities still use time-consuming and inaccurate handwritten paper manifests to track packages, others like Colgate, Cal Poly Pomona and Cal State University Dominquez Hills rely on a quick, easy-to-use electronic tracking system from A2B. At these universities, wasted hours and clerical errors are things of the pat. Parcels are bar coded, scanned and either held for student pick up (students are notified by email) or disbursed among couriers. Since implementing an A2B tracking system, Cal State Dominuguez Hills calculates its parcel processing time has dropped by 86%; its errors are down to zero; and they now have time to make three or four mail deliveries per day instead of one. Plus what they saved in man-hours paid for their A2B system in only nine months.