For Back-to-School Mailings, It's All in the Box!

If you’re a parent who has just paid that first semester’s tuition bill for the young adult in your family, you’ll be glad to know how to save some money. Look no further than the Post Office to ship those packages of essential items to your child who is in college.

For back-to-school mailings, it’s all in the box: the Priority Mail Flat Rate Box. Everything you need for a student package will fit into one of four different sized boxes available — and will ship for one flat price no matter the weight or destination.

Home-baked goods and other snack foods, gift cards, school supplies, music CDs and even travel tickets to visit home make the perfect Back to School in a Box package for students arriving at college campuses across the country.

Priority Mail flat-rate packages arrive in an average of 2–3 days. Saturday and residential deliveries are included at no extra cost. The four box size configurations are the Priority Mail Flat Rate Small Box, about the size of three stacked DVDs; two sizes of Priority Mail Flat Rate Medium Boxes, one similar in size and shape to a shoe box and the other similar to a flat clothing box; and the Priority Mail Flat Rate Large Box, with 50 percent more space inside than the medium boxes.