Additional Mail Centers
HUMS manages various mail centers throughout the Cambridge and Allston campuses. Please find more details about additional mail centers below.
The DCE Mail Center serves 51 Brattle Street and satellite DCE offices. The HUMS mail operation provides sorting, delivery, and processing of outgoing mail.
The DCE Center Mail Center can be reached at hums@harvard.edu.
The GSAS Mail Center will be open from 10AM-2PM, Monday through Saturday, throughout Winter Recess 2024 with the exception of 12/25/24 and 1/1/25.
The GSAS Mail Center, located in the basement of Perkins Hall, serves the following dormitories of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences:
- Child Hall - 26 Everett St.
- Conant Hall - 36 Oxford St.
- Perkins Hall - 35 Oxford St.
- Richards Hall - 24 Everett St.
The address of residents receiving mail at the GSAS Mail Center should be formatted as follows:
<Full Name>
<Mailbox Number><Hall>
GSAS Mail Center
Cambridge, MA 02138
So, for example,
John Harvard
123 Child Hall
GSAS Mail Center
Cambridge, MA 02138
This is the best way to address your mail. However, some carriers will require a street address, which are listed above.
The GSAS Mail Center is open Monday through Friday from 8:00 a.m. to noon, 1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m., and Saturday from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.
All mail is sorted into mailboxes and residents are notified via email when a parcel is received for them. Residents may drop off mail or parcels they wish to send out via USPS, UPS, or FedEx – provided postage or prepaid labels are already attached. Due to the high turnover rate at these dormitories, the GSAS Mail Center works closely with the Harvard Student Mail Forwarding Center to help ensure that any mail for former residents is forwarded to them.
HUMS provides limited package services to Harvard University Housing residents at the following locations:
- 10 Akron St.
- 5 Cowperthwaite St.
- 29 Garden St.
- Peabody Terrace
- Soldiers Field Park
- 1 Western Avenue
Please direct inquiries to your local building management or hums@harvard.edu.
The mail center at the Center for Government and International Studies (CGIS) serves all the buildings which house the center. Our staff provides sorting, delivery, and processing of outgoing mail as well as advice to CGIS staff on USPS policies and HUMS services.
The CGIS Mail Center can be reached at (617) 495-8659 or hums@harvard.edu.
The mail center at Littauer is open from 1:00 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. Monday through Friday. HUMS sorts and delivers mail and forwards mail for staff and faculty who no longer have offices in the building.
The Littauer Mail Center can be reached at hums@harvard.edu.
HUMS provides full-service loading dock and mail center management at the Science and Engineering Complex, 150 Western Avenue in Allston.
The SEC loading dock can be reached at (617) 496-0444 or hums@harvard.edu.
The Smith Campus Center (SCC) houses many of Harvard’s Central Administration offices. The HUMS SCC mail operation provides sorting, delivery, processing of outgoing mail, courier deliveries to other parts of campus, and some specialized work specific to individual departments. The mail center at the Smith Campus Center is open Monday through Friday from 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
The Smith Campus Center Mail Center can be reached at (617) 495-4183 or hums@harvard.edu.
The GSE Mail Center serves the buildings and offices of the Graduate School of Education, including Gutman Library, Longfellow Hall, and Larsen Hall, as well as the various satellite offices located around Harvard Square. We receive, sort, and distribute all incoming USPS mail and parcels and deliverables arriving through private carriers such as UPS, FedEx, and DHL. We also prepare outgoing USPS mailings and ensure that outgoing items prepared by offices are received by the appropriate carriers.
As the GSE Mail Center is part of the HUMS system, the Graduate School of Education has access to various other HUMS services beyond the ones provided strictly by the GSE Mail Center. These include tracking of all incoming parcels from the time of receipt at the University through delivery, an on-call, desk-to-desk courier service, and a customer service line dedicated to HUMS constituents.
To reach us,
HUMS Customer Service (7:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.):
Phone: (617) 496-6245
Emaill: hums@harvard.edu
GSE Mail Center:
Phone: (617) 495-7751
To help us ensure quick and accurate delivery of your mail and parcels, please include all relevant address details in any items you have shipped or mailed including name, department, building, street address, and room/floor number.
HUMS maintains the mail centers for the 12 undergraduate Houses, where most undergraduate students live.
These mail centers are:
- Adams Mail Center - 26 Plympton St.
- Cabot Mail Center - 60 Linnaean St.
- Currier Mail Center - 64 Linnaean St.
- Dunster Mail Center - 945 Memorial Dr.
- Eliot Mail Center - 101 Dunster St.
- Kirkland Mail Center - 95 Dunster St.
- Leverett Mail Center - 28 DeWolfe St.
- Lowell Mail Center - 10 Holyoke Pl.
- Mather Mail Center - 10 Cowperthwaite St.
- Pforzheimer Mail Center - 56 Linnaean St.
- Quincy Mail Center - 58 Plympton St.
- Winthrop Mail Center - 32 Mill St.
Mail for residents of the House system should be addressed as follows:
<Full Name>
<Mailbox Number> <House> Mail Center
Cambridge, MA 02138
So, for example,
John Harvard
123 Adams Mail Center
Cambridge, MA 02138
This is the best way to address your mail. It is not necessary to include the street address. However, some carriers will require a street address, which can be found above.
HUMS delivers all USPS and interoffice mail and parcels to these mail centers. Parcels from private carriers such as Amazon, UPS, and FedEx are delivered directly to the Houses by those carriers. All parcels are received by the House building managers’ office, which notifies residents and manages the distribution of these parcels.
Because of the high turnover rate at the Houses, all the House mail centers work closely with the Harvard Student Mail Forwarding Center to help ensure that any mail for former residents is forwarded to them, whether internal or external to the University. Additionally, if mail is mistakenly sent to a student’s first-year address, HUMS will forward it to the proper undergraduate house mailbox. To avoid delivery delays, please use the correct address.
The mail center at William James Hall (WJH) primarily serves the psychology, sociology, and anthropology departments. HUMS staff sort, deliver, and process outgoing mail and advise WJH staff on USPS policies and HUMS services. The WJH Mail Center is open Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. to noon.
The WJH Mail Center can be reached at (617) 496-3808 or hums@harvard.edu.