Smith College is officially closed for Winter Break Friday 12/22/23, reopening Wednesday 01/03/24.
The Stockrooms will be closed as of 3 pm Thursday 12/21/23 reopening Wednesday 01/03/24. There will be limited open hours 01/03-01/05/24, 10-11am and 2-3pm to facilitate receiving of backlogged shipments, mandatory inventory, and general clean up. Packages will be delivered as usual throughout the day and orders placed.
During the break (12/22/23-01/02/24):
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- There will be no deliveries from UPS/FedEx/DHL/USPS.
- Any packages sent to the College during that time will at best be held by the delivery service or at Mail Services until the college reopens.
- Worst case scenarios include packages being returned to sender as “undeliverable”, dumped at some random spot on campus to be snowed/rained on, or left in an unsecured location and stolen.
- This applies to any packages, not just those ordered via the stockroom.
Ordering/outgoing shipments before the break:
- If you want to pay standard shipping rates(not expedited in any way, delivery in 7-10 business days) for lab supplies that are in stock by the vendor to arrive before the break, place your order to the stockroom via stockroom@smith.edu by Wednesday, 12/06/23 by 1:00 pm.
- If you want to make an end of calendar year purchase that requires a purchase order with a vendor that is active in Workday (usually these are requests for service or equipment purchases more than $5,000), place your order via stockroom@smith.edu by Wednesday 12/06/23. We have no way to guarantee that a purchase order will be issued and that your order will be placed in calendar year 2023 after this date.
- Orders shipped on dry ice or shipped via next day should be placed via stockroom@smith.edu no later than 1:00 pm Wednesday, 12/13/23. Remember, vendors may not be willing or able to ship cold packed/dry ice items to arrive on Wednesday 1/03/24. If they are closed Monday 1/2, items will not arrive earlier than Thursday 1/4.
- Gas cylindersshould be ordered via stockroom@smith.edu by 1:00 pm Wednesday 12/13/23, to be received before the break.
- New requests foroutgoing shipment (UPS/FedEx) received after Wednesday 12/13/23 will not be processed until after Winter break.
