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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Monday, October 16, 1967
More than 20,000 letters delivered each day
By Pam Peck Kansan Staff Reporter
Would you believe that men from Buildings and Grounds deliver your grades and your down-slips?
Employees of campus mail, a division of KU's Buildings and Grounds Department, pick up and deliver more than 20,000 pieces of interdepartmental mail per day.
They deliver budget sheets from departments to administration, take pay roll sheets to the business office, grade sheets and down-slip reports to the registrar, service orders to their own department and memos, letters, alumni information, graduate applications, drop slips to their destinations.
Celll Hanson, clerk in charge of the campus mail office, Room 4. Strong Hall, said the volume of mail they handle has doubled in the past two years, mainly because of increased enrollment and the addition of Centennial College mail.
Nobody knows for sure when KU's campus mail system was initiated. Harry M. Buchholz, B and G physical plant superintendent, said that it was probably begun back in 1866 when the first errand boy was dispatched from one KU department to another.
Unclear origin
Buchholz said that as the campus grew there was the disadvantage of having to pay postage to send mail to the downtown post office and then wait for its return to campus. Campus mail goes postage free.
The campus mail department makes use of a yellow scooter for delivering and collecting mail at 105 offices and departments. Delivery points are as far north as
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partments are responsible for sorting mail for members of their staff.
Limited facilities and number of employees do not allow the transporation of books and catalogues by campus mail employees.
Deliveries of campus mail start at 8 a.m. Monday through Friday and continue through late afternoon. Mail picked up by noon is delivered the afternoon of the same day, and mail picked up in the afternoon is delivered the following day.
Wrong addresses and books cause campus mail employees the most trouble, said Hanson. Campus mail is not delivered to a specific party, but to departmental offices and the individual de-
Offices and departments are also assigned a mailbox and key at campus mail headquarters. However, secretaries often forget to pick up campus mail while getting other mail at the U.S. Post Office next door, said a campus mail employee.
time student employees, John Strahan. Salina graduate student, Mike Davis, San Francisco, Calif., senior, and Darrel Kreighbaum, Overland Park graduate student.
Three full-time employees collect, sort and deliver campus mail. They are assisted by three part-
Because of limited facilities, students are not allowed to use the campus mail system.
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