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Central Mail Services of Homewood

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Delivery and Collections

Homewood Locations
Off-Campus Locations
Applied Physics Lab
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Homewood Locations

Service Provision:
Homewood Mail Services standard provision includes one (1)
delivery and collection daily to a single location for each
Primary Department of the Homewood Campus which includes JH@Eastern. Each department is then responsible for distribution within its own organization. There is one afternoon delivery route with a collection of internal as well as any outbound mail for the day.

Individual Primary Departments that desire a finer sortation and an additional location for delivery and collection may make this request on department letterhead. The request should include a budget number to which a monthly service charge will be applied, the names of the specific programs and personnel associated with, and the geographic location of, the additional mail-stop.

Delivery Standards:
According to procedure, all internal mail collected from each route
is taken to the Homewood Mail Services Distribution Center located at 5801 Smith Ave, 21209. This mail is then sorted for delivery on the next route.
This does not necessarily apply to internal production mail or "mass mailings" which may require special scheduling for sortation.

All out-going US Mail collected by Homewood Mail Services is taken
to the Gilman Mail Center at the end of each route and given to the
US Postal Service that day. Currently, US Mail is collected from the Gilman Mail Center by the Main Post Office at 4:00pm each day.

Off-Campus Locations

Service Provision:
Homewood Primary Departments in off-campus, Baltimore City locations south of 30th Street and north of University Parkway receive one (1) delivery and collection of internal mail daily.

Currently, Homewood Mail Services provides one (1) direct delivery and collection of internal mail daily (dispatched from Homewood at
9:15am) to each Divisional location for The JH Hospital, Schools of Medicine, Hygiene, and Nursing, the Peabody Inst, the Downtown Center, and satellite offices in between these campuses. Each location is responsible for distribution within its own organization.

Delivery Standards:
According to procedure, all internal mail collected from off-campus locations is taken to the Homewood Mail Services Distribution Center at 5801 Smith Ave, 21209, and is sorted for delivery on the next route. Mail for the Homewood campus is delivered with the routes that afternoon; mail going to off-campus locations will be dispatched with the morning route of the next business day. This does not necessarily apply to internal production mail or "mass mailings" which may require special scheduling for sortation.
Please Note: An exchange program is in place among the Mail Centers of the Medical campus. Therefore, mail generated at the Medical campus intended for delivery within the schools of that campus DO NOT have to travel through Homewood Mail Services.

Applied Physics Lab (APL):
Currently, there are no scheduled internal exchanges of mail between the Homewood campus and the Applied Physics Lab. Any department with mail for APL will need to have appropriate postage applied for mailing through the US Postal Service unless the matter meets the exception criteria of the
Private Express Statutes.

School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS):
Currently, there are no scheduled internal exchanges of mail between the Homewood campus and SAIS in Washington, D.C.. Any department with mail for SAIS will need to have appropriate postage applied for mailing through the US Postal Service unless the matter meets the exception criteria of the Private Express Statutes.


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Last updated 13Jul2005 by Andrew Shriver Macsherry