Each of these address elements is important as is their order, both for getting mail to the College and for having it sorted and placed in your box quickly and accurately once it arrives on campus. Therefore, please take care to give out your address in the proper format. The street address is far more important to the Postal Service for getting mail to the College.
Registered mail is delivered on an as-needed basis.
U.S. mail is sorted and placed into boxes the day it is received. This is true for first class mail and periodicals, and advertising materials are delivered as quickly as is practicable. While the Vassar Post Office by its nature is sensitive to manpower availability, we typically have sufficient staff available to process incoming mail the day it is received. Delays, if they occur, rarely are longer than one day. The package itself is dated as well.