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F or many years, letters have been the most
efficient method of comminication. From
the Pony Express to the United States Postal
Sevice, many organizations have taken the role,
of delivering letters. At Texas A&M, this service is
performed by the University Mail System.
For a university the size of Texas A&M, the
University Mail System is a vital part of the Uni
versity and its functions.
John Stanislaw, manager of the Universi
ty Mail System, said there are many interest
ing details about the Texas A&M University
Mail System.
“We get about 5,000 pounds of mail every
day and about 16 million letters and packages
in a year,” Stanislaw said. “There are 302 dif
ferent departments and [mail is] delivered on
the six mail trucks twice daily, once at 8 a.m.
and another at 1 p.m. The routes are taking
longer and longer with the expanding campus. ”
University Mail System is considered part of
the Physical Plant and is located by the North-
side Parking Garage.
Stanislaw and three other supervisors, who
have, when combined, more than a hundred
years of mail experience, oversee the 58 employ
ees of the Mail System, which is divided into 26
full-time employees and 32 student workers.
“We’re trying to employ more student
workers at the moment,” Stanislaw said. “We
employ student workers in all different jobs
around here. They specialize more than regu
lar workers because they are part time and
usually only work for a semester or two while
they are in school.”
The normal work day of a Mail System em-
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Robert Krug, a sophomore business administration major, checks the mailbox outside the Universi
ty Mail Service Building, which is located next to the Northgate Parking Garage.
ployee is 6 a.m. to 5 p.m. and includes working
on Saturdays and some holidays.
Workers do more than just deliver mail. Jobs
at the Mail System include presorting mail for
delivery, sorting mail that has been delivered
and working with the postal trucks that arrive
twice daily.
More than 2.5 million dollars is billed by the
University Mail System to all the departments
that send mail. This is after the various dis
counts the departments recieve.
“The mail we send doesn’t cost the same as
it does for someone who goes down to the post
office and sends a letter,” Stanislaw said. “Be
cause of the large amount of mail we distribute.
we’re able to utilize discounts like bulk rate, li
brary and book mail discounts. On the average
our mail costs less than that of smaller compa
nies and organizations.”
As Texas A&M grows and expands, so do the
routes and needs of the Mail System.
“The computer age is really a challenge for
us,” Stanislaw said. “We’ve had to fix the Y2K
bug in our systems by upgrading. E-mail and fax
are adding to it too, but there hasn’t been any
change in mail distribution.
“The rate of increase is slowing down
though. The congestion and traffic of campus
have also been a problem, but we’ve always had
to deal with things like that.”
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THE ASSOCIATION OF FORMER STUDENTS
CLAYTON W. WILLIAMS, JR. ALUMNI CENTER
DEADLINE: December 9, 1998
Undergraduate Student Requirements:
1 You must be a degree seeking student and have a total of 95 undergraduate credit hours reflected
on the Texas A&M University Student Information Management System. (A passed course, which
is repeated and passed, cannot count as additional credit hours.)
2. 60 undergraduate credit hours must have been completed in residence at Texas A&M University if
your first semester at Texas A&M University was January 1994 or thereafter, or if you do not qualify
under the successful semester requirement described in the following paragraph. Should your
degree be conferred with less than 60 undergraduate resident credits, this requirement will be waived
after you graduate and your degree is posted on the Student Information Management System.
30 undergraduate credit hours must have been completed in residence at Texas A&M University,
providing that prior to January 1, 1994, you were registered at Texas A&M University and
successfully completed either a fall/spring semester or summer term (I and II or 10 weeks) as a full
time student in good standing (as defined in the University catalog).
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If you are a December 1998 degree candidate and you do not have an Aggie ring from a
prior degree, you may place an order after you meet the following requirements:
1. Your degree is conferred and posted on the Texas A&M University Student Information
Management System; and
2. You are in good standing with the University, including no registration or transcript blocks for
past due fees, loans, parking tickets, returned checks, etc.
However, If you have completed all of your course work prior to this semester and have been cleared
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(providing it is not past their deadline). The original letter of completion, with the seal, may be
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visit the Aggie Ring Office beginning December 14 to complete an audit
request and to receive order information. In the event you will not be in
the College Station area between January 20 and February 10 to place
your order in person, please pick up a mail order form and be sized for
your ring between December 14 & 21.
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