Proper Addressing

Mail that is addressed to your building using the street address will go to the Shorewood Post Office because the University is in the Shorewood Post Office delivery area. The only mail that the Shorewood Post Office delivers is mail for the Sandburg Dorms. If you use your building street address, your mail could be delayed a week to ten days because the Shorewood Post Office sends UWM mail back to the main Post Office, to be placed in UWM's main post office box 413.

The reason the Post Office will not deliver mail to the University buildings is that we do not have mail boxes attached to the building. We have held post office boxes for over thirty years, and we pick up the mail twice each day, at 6:30 A.M. and at 11:00 A.M.

If your department does not have its own post office box, your mail should be addressed to P.O. Box 413, the University's general post office box number. An example of the proper address is:

MS. JANE DOE
UWM ENGLISH DEPARTMENT
P.O. BOX 413
MILWAUKEE WI 53201-0413

Departments who have their own box number should use that number in place of 413. For your nine digit zip code, use 53201 followed by a zero and your three digit box number. An example of the proper address is:

MR FRANK JOHNSON
UWM PURCHASING DEPARTMENT
PO BOX 777
MILWAUKEE WI 53201-0777

Please note that all capital letters and no punctuation were used in the examples. This is the preferred Post Office form of addressing. There is one exception to this addressing rule. This format is for Post office mail only. If you are using a private courier, such as Federal Express, United Parcel Service, Burlington Express, etc., you must use your street address. Your delivery could be delayed while they attempt to contact you for a street address.