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Digital Publisher
Digital Commons at St. Mary's University
Publication Date
Spring 2025
Keywords
efficiency in mail; notifying users
Description
This platform is a mail delivery notification system to assist school mailrooms, specifically the St. Mary’s University mailroom, in notifying users of the mailroom when packages have arrived, creating one location where all mail information can be found and overall improving the efficiency of the mailroom. Students and faculty at St. Mary’s University have access to a mail room to receive packages. This is very useful, especially for those who stay on campus or who want an external location to receive mail. Now that recipients receive an email when a package is delivered, the main concern of picking up a package before it is disposed of has been reduced. However, it is still inconvenient for students who live in an on-campus dorm to repeatedly check their dorm room mailbox when expecting a letter, because no notification is sent when letters are delivered. If the student is not expecting to receive a letter (perhaps a bill, money sent from family, or other important and timesensitive notices) it can pose a massive inconvenience for them. Lastly, for newer students especially, students must scour the St. Mary’s website to determine where the mailroom is, mailroom hours, what their dorm address is, how to order packages to this address, how to send mail, etc., and all this information is found in different places. The approach is to create a mail delivery notification mobile application to solve this problem. The app will have two interfaces, one for the students and faculty who will receive their mail, and one for those operating in the mailroom center. The student will be able to see when their package has arrived and where it is located, view helpful information about sending and receiving mail, and even send in help tickets. The administrators will be able to scan in packages, send notifications, search for packages, search for students, resolve help tickets, and monitor storage space all from the mobile app.
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City
San Antonio, Texas
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.
