Each residence hall has post office boxes provided for residents’ use. Your room key will open your mailbox. U. S. mail is delivered to the residence halls once daily by University personnel Monday through Saturday. Mail is not delivered during breaks, three-day weekends, or on national holidays. Packages are also brought to your residence hall mail room.
Mail is distributed by the Hall Mail Staff as quickly as their work and class schedules allow. The goal is to have all mail and package slips in residents’ boxes by 3:00 p.m. on days mail is delivered.
To facilitate quick mail service, please have your mail addressed completely. Notify your family and friends of your correct address, as soon as possible. Please note the example and chart below for your hall, box number, and zip+four numbers. The standard zip code for all of campus is 57007. This is an example of how mail should be addressed (see the chart below):
Jack Rabbit
Caldwell Hall 167
Box 2810
SDSU
Brookings, SD 57007-3511
Mailing to the Residence Halls:
[Name]
SDSU
Abbott Hall [Room #]
Box 2702
Brookings, SD 57007
[Name]
SDSU
Ben Reifel Hall [Room #]
Box 2703
Brookings, SD 57007
[Name]
SDSU
Binnewies Hall [Room #]
Box 2805
Brookings, SD 57007-1299
[Name]
SDSU
Brown Hall [Room #]
Box 2801
Brookings, SD 57007-1996
[Name]
SDSU
Caldwell Hall [Room #]
Box 2810
Brookings, SD 57007-3511
[Name]
SDSU
Hansen Hall [Room #]
Box 670
Brookings, SD 57007-1899
[Name]
SDSU
Honors Hall [Room #]
Box 2705
Brookings, SD 57007
[Name]
SDSU
Hyde Hall [Room #]
Box 2704
Brookings, SD 57007
[Name]
SDSU
Mathews Hall [Room #]
Box 2803
Brookings, SD 57007-2499
[Name]
SDSU
Pierson Hall [Room #]
Box 2804
Brookings, SD 57007-1999
[Name]
SDSU
Schultz Hall [Room #]
Box 2706
Brookings, SD 57007
[Name]
SDSU
Spencer Hall [Room #]
Box 2700
Brookings, SD 57007
[Name]
SDSU
Thorne Hall [Room #]
Box 2701
Brookings, SD 57007
[Name]
SDSU
Waneta Hall [Room #]
Box 509
Brookings, SD 57007-3199
[Name]
SDSU
Young Hall [Room #]
Box 2807
Brookings, SD 57007-3499
Mailing to Meadows Apartments:
Department Main Office:
Housing & Residential Life
Department Main Office
Box 2810A
SDSU
Brookings, SD 57007-0898
Residents should fill out a mail forwarding card at the hall desk when they make a room change or move out of the residence halls.
Additional Mailing Information
The mailroom/package centers will be closed on the following Holidays: Labor Day (Mon., Sept. 5); Native American Day (Mon., Oct. 10); Veterans Day (Fri., Nov. 11).
The mailroom/package centers will also be closed for Thanksgiving recess (Wednesday, November 23 – Sunday, November 27).
Mailroom/package center service will be limited December 15, 2022-January 9, 2023.
All packages go through our University Customer Service and are then routed to the package centers in the residence halls. If you get a message from a vendor stating that your package was delivered, it does not mean that it has been received at a package center - only that it has been received at the University package drop location. Please wait for an email notification from your package center that your package is ready for pick-up.
Due to the volume of packages our University receives, occasionally a package is routed to a different package center in the residence halls. These packages will not be moved from that package center and you will need to pick it up at the location it was delivered to. We apologize if this occurs, however, we want you to have access to your package as soon as possible and that means not having the package remain in transit between buildings.
Please check your mailbox in the residence halls regularly. If you receive something that does not belong to you, return it to the front desk.
If a student no longer lives in the residence halls, we use their permanent mailing address to forward mail to. While we can forward USPS mail and packages, other vendors such as FedEx and UPS can have forwarding restrictions.
Packages that are not picked up within 30 days of arrival are returned to sender. Please pick-up your packages in a timely manner.
Residence hall post offices are intended for distribution of information as follows:
U.S. Postal Service Mail
Off-campus organizations, vendors, and/or businesses who wish to do mass mailings to campus residents may purchase mailing lists from Residential Life. For current fees, contact the Residential Life office. Mass mailings from off-campus organizations, vendors, and/or businesses must be sent through the U.S. Postal Service.
Campus Mail
Campus mail is a service provided for University offices and approved student organizations.
Hall Information
Notes may be put into the residence hall mailboxes by Hall Mail Staff which:
are authorized by the residence hall staff or their designee.
are an emergency message left at the hall desk.
Departmental Information
Mail which comes directly from the Department of Residential Life under the authorization of the Director may be put into the hall mailboxes.