BY FRANKIE RATH | PHOTO FROM MAIL CENTER
Edgewood College is having difficulty maintaining its status as a paper saving campus because of a recent overload of bulk mail.
Elizabeth Reuter, director of the Edgewood College mailing department, has seen first-hand the amount of unnecessary mail the college receives.
Although Reuter said this isn’t necessarily a student problem or a staff problem, it is a sustainability problem because the college is always trying to eliminate excess paper and other things that contribute to waste.
She is asking faculty and staff to directly contact the companies sending bulk mail to them and ask to be taken off their mailing lists.
Edgewood College prides itself on sustainability, said Reuter. But “10 or 12 catalogs are being shipped here, and nobody is going to take them.” she said. “A company could probably spend their money doing something else as opposed to sending hard copies of catalogs.”
Reuter said vendors and companies are sending mail to people that don’t even work at the college anymore and delivering to addresses of departments that aren’t even correctly listed as the current address.
Reuter said this isn’t necessarily a student issue, but vendors do try to reach out to students with bulk mail and catalogs because a lot of student outreach is done online.
In addition, departments are visiting websites; the companies see that and send catalogs automatically. Reuter said she has to contact companies directly in order to take persons off the mailing list, which is a tedious job.
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