Service Center FACTOIDS

Campus Mail Services located in Murray Herrick Center receives and distributes almost 1.2 million pieces of US mail annually. For questions about shipping and receiving packages, or faxing services, call Jim at 2-6355.

Do you have a large mailing that you'd like to personalize to each recipient? Mail-merged letters with personalized envelopes are our specialty. Call Gloria at 2-6593.

The Service Center, which was designed by Cass Gilbert and built in 1894 for $20,000, has a smokestack that's 95' tall with stylized crosses in brick at the top. Cass Gilbert also designed the US Supreme Court building in Washington D.C., the Woolworth building in New York City, and the Minnesota State Capitol.

In the old days, the Service Center building was lighted by gas and heated with coal. Today, the power plant in the basement heats the entire south campus. James J. Hill, the President of the Great Northern Railroad donated the $20,000 needed to construct the Service Center building.

Campus Mail Services' one Courier Coordinator, and small staff of student couriers delivered 2,758 cases of copier, fax and printer paper last year. That's 13,790,000 sheets of paper- almost 5.75 tons per month! For questions about intercampus mail delivery services call Peter at 2-6509.

There are 24 regular employees in the Service Center units, with a mean # of years of service at UST of 9.47.

Among the products and services offered by the Service Center units: On-line business card, letterhead, and envelope ordering; full color short-run printing; 1 and 2 color offset printing; black and white high-speed copying and printing; laminating and mounting; US, international, and intercampus mail sorting and distribution; expedited package services through UPS and FedEx; postage stamp sales; public fax service; bookbinding and finishing services like folding, numbering, padding and drilling, etc.

The current south campus used to be comprised only of St Paul Seminary buildings including the North Dormitory, (Loras), the South Dormitory, (Cretin), an administration building that was torn down, (roughly where The St Paul Seminary School of Divinity main building is now), classrooms, (roughly where Brady Education Center is now) that were torn down, the Chapel, the gymnasium, (Service Center building) and a refectory north of the gymnasium which was torn down.

Personalized graduation cards, holiday cards, wedding invitations, special occasion invitations and related items are available at a special discount to UST faculty, staff and students through the Service Center's dealer relationship with Carlson Craft. Call Leann at 2-6587 for information.