Oberlin College Mailroom
(usually referred to as "the Mailroom" or OCMR)
The mailroom: get a package from your parents, pick up your copy of the Oberlin Review, get lots of pieces of paper and put them straight into the recycling bins conveniently located under the rows of mailboxes.
You keep the same OCMR box for four years, unless you take an Academic Leave of Absence (or get suspended for a year), in which case they roll the dice again and give you a new one.
The mailroom is located in the basement of Wilder.
[edit] Opening your mailbox
The locks on the mailboxes never fail to confuse the hell out of a good number of new students. Like a padlock, your combination is three numbers: you've gotta dial in the first, then the second, then the third, then open it up. Here's how to do it:
- Unlike a padlock, you've gotta turn the dial counter-clockwise first. Spin it a few times for good measure, then stop at the first number of your combination.
- Now clockwise. Give it one full turn so you're back at your first number again, then continue to and stop at your second number.
- Then turn it counterclockwise until you hit your last number. You'll probably feel a little click when you get close.
- Now for the part that screws everyone up. Turn it slowly clockwise, just a few notches, until it pops open.
- Ta-da!
This style of mailbox is also seen at other colleges around the country. (Middlebury, for example.)
[edit] Addressing information
The Mailroom recommends that mail be addressed to you as follows:
Your full name OCMR #### 135 West Lorain Street Oberlin, OH 44074-1081
The minimum acceptable information is your first and last name as registered in the Registrars Office and the OCMR Box number, as follows:
Name OCMR #### Oberlin, OH 44074
As an intermediate version, it also works if you use:
Name OCMR #### Oberlin College Oberlin, OH 44074
