The number of letters has steadily declined since the late 1990s, when the college received between 2,500 and 5,000 daily. Now, it gets fewer than 1,000 for its 2,000 students.

Bates College in Lewiston, Maine is eliminating its mailboxes at the end of the summer, while the number of packages Bates College receives has risen. And boy, are people emotional about it.

After an auto-generated Bates email informed Noah that “you have a package ticket in your mailbox,” he visited his Chase Hall mailbox to pick up the yellow ticket, which he used to claim the cake at ...

Students at Bates College won’t be getting any letters from home next year — at least not in their personal mailboxes. When students return for the fall semester, they won’t be assigned ...

Does this use of NIL ruin the integrity of college football and the future of ... If you had me write down 10,000 names that might land in our Mailbox letters this week, Austin Moherman would ...

The anxiety surrounding college admissions has intensified sharply in recent years, ... Mailboxes, inboxes bursting with college brochures Hard-core marketing prompts worries of overkill, waste.