MAILING AND SHIPPING GUIDELINES
The offices of Facilities Management in Carnegie Mellon Qatar campus and International Finance in Carnegie Mellon Pittsburgh have joined efforts to come up with Mailing and Shipping Guidelines for purposes of providing a complete and accurate information guidelines to faculty and staff community. It covers the the basic shipping concerns like CMU Rights and Restrictions, Personal & Business Shipment Packages, Shipping Restriction Guidelines and more.
CENTRAL E-MAIL ADDRESS
Send any of your shipping or Mail Room concerns to shipping-cmuq@lists.qatar.cmu.edu
ADDRESS TO USE IN SENDING SHIPMENTS THROUGH PITTSBURGH
First and Last Name
Carnegie Mellon University – Qatar Office
5032 Forbes Avenue SMC 1070
Pittsburgh, PA 15289-1070
Telephone Number 412 268 6653
The above address will serve as the delivery address for both personal and business shipments.
Note - The 1070 extension as part of the zip code may not fit on the change of address form. If so, please be sure to include the 1070 code in the street address section on Line 8a.
PERSONAL SHIPMENT ALLOWANCES
Each employee will be allotted a maximum personal shipment weight of five pounds per week or 20 pounds per month.
SHIPPING RESTRICTIONS
A. Prohibited Commodities
- Pork products, religious publications, figures, materials Imitation firearms, paraphernalia and/or military uniforms
- Weapons: guns, knives, swords, blades, daggers, arrows, ammunition, explosives, etc.
- Antiques
- Pets or other animals
- Gambling devices and/or playing cards
- Rated R movies and/or pornographic materials
- Furs
- Plant products and soils
- Precious metals, stones or items containing ivory
- Tobacco and/or alcoholic beverages
- Cash & currency
- Expensive jewelry (exceeding $500)
- Prescription drugs, narcotics or over-the-counter medicine
- Hazardous or Dangerous Goods (acidic, caustic, combustible communicable, compressed gas, corrosive, explosive, flammable, infectious, inflammable, poison, radioactive, refrigerated, toxic, volatile).
B. Restricted Items
- Pet Food (Dog/Cat/etc. Food/Treats/etc.)
- Energy/Health Drinks and Supplements
C. Items Subject to Additional Screening
- Audio, video, radio and other communications equipment
- Computers, compact discs, USB Flash or Memory drives and other Intercompany data on CD-Rom/Disk
- Films
- Medical Items
- Publications
HOW TO SHIP ITEMS TO PITTSBURGH CAMPUS?
A. Business Shipment
A mail bin has been set up at the Qatar Campus Receptionist desk for all outgoing business mail requiring shipment to the United States. All outgoing mail should be placed in this bin no later than 12 noon on Sundays and Wednesdays in order to be included with the standard FedEx pick up by 2:00pm Qatar local time on these same days. All U.S. Postal Mail must have the appropriate postage in order to be circulated into the University’s outgoing mail.
B. Personal Shipment
To arrange for any personal shipments, contact FedEx directly at 6605-6818 / 44230095 OR e-mail FedEx at rami.zeitawi@falcongroup.bz or john.clarence@falcongroup.bz.
MAIL ROOM LOCATION
CMUQ Mail Room location is at Room 1214 adjacent to the Food Court.
