PICKUP SERVICES

Central Stores offers a variety of pickup services. Next day pickup service includes pickup of packages ready to be shipped, recycling of cartridges, and returns. Central Stores also has shredding and storage pickup service. For emergency same day service requests, please call 486-6297.

Pickup of Shipping, Recycling Cartridges and Returns

Central Stores provides next day pickup service of packages ready to be shipped, recycling of cartridges (printer/fax toners), and returns. There is no charge for this service. Requests must be made before 4:30 pm to be honored for the next business day.

Shipping Pickups
Central Stores ships out packages every day, including Federal Express, UPS, and DHL. Service includes ground, standard overnight, overnight, and international. Items must be properly packaged, addressed, and accompanied by a Transfer Voucher (BO-20). The completed Transfer Voucher must be firmly attached to the package. If required, the shipment must also include the air bill. For more information about shipping services, see Shipping.

Recycling Cartridge Pickups
Return used printer and fax toner cartridges to Central Stores for proper recycling. Recycling is good for the environment and beneficial to the University. Proceeds from recycling cartridges are used to offset costs involved in recycling old University computers and other electronic equipment. Note: Central Stores does not pick up copier toner cartridges; for more information, see Recycle.

Return Pickups
Central Stores picks up returns of products ordered from Central Stores. For complete information on how to return Central Stores items, see Central Stores Returns.

Central Stores also picks up vendor returns to be shipped. Except as indicated for Corporate Express and Fisher Scientific, vendor returns to be shipped must include a BO-800 form and a Transfer Voucher (BO-20).

Visit the Corporate Express website, Program Procedures for complete instructions on how to return their items. For Fisher Scientific Returns, call 1-800-766-7000 and request a Return of Goods Authorization Shipping Label. Affix the label to the carton you are returning. Please do not send your BO-800 vendor return paperwork to Central Stores. The BO-800 form for Fisher Scientific returns is for your department's use only.

To request a pickup of shipping, recycling cartridges, or returns, complete and submit the Pickup Form.

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Pickup of Shredding: CONFIDENTIAL University Documents Only

Central Stores provides a shredding service for CONFIDENTIAL University documents only.
There is no charge for this service.

NOTE: Central Stores now picks up shredding on Thursdays.

Before submitting a shredding request to Central Stores, permission to destroy state records must be granted. Visit the UConn Records Management Program for complete information about this process.

Confidential documents to be shredded must be boxed, sealed, and labeled with the department name, phone, and contact person. Metal parts—such as paper clips—should be removed and the documents should not be in binders or part of a wirebound notebook.

This service is NOT for recycling documents that are NOT confidential.
(For info about recycling documents that are not confidential, contact Facilities Recycling, 486-4575.)

To request a pickup of CONFIDENTIAL documents for shredding, complete and submit the Shredding Form.

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Pickup of Storage Items

Central Stores has storage space available that is heated, dry, and secure. The most common use for storage space is document storage. Central Stores can accommodate storage of items that can be safely kept on a pallet. A pallet is 40" wide by 48" deep by 48" high. It will hold 30-40 transfer files or copy paper boxes. The boxes are stacked on top of each other and the entire unit is shrink-wrapped. The cost is $7.00 a pallet per month with a minimum requirement of 6 months storage. Or $84.00 a year for the equivalent of three (3) 5-drawer file cabinets.

Documents for storage must be boxed, sealed, and labeled with the department name, phone, and contact person.

To request a pickup of storage items, complete and submit the Storage Pickup Form.

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DELIVERY

Central Stores regularly delivers materials ordered from our warehouse to all University locations. This includes nearly 9,000 items—office, maintenance, and laboratory supplies that we stock as well as special order items.

In addition, Central Stores also provides a routine delivery service to the University for supplies ordered from the Document Production Center and certain vendors such as Corporate Express.

Delivery to Non-Storrs Locations

Are you located outside of Storrs? Central Stores delivers twice a month to non-Storrs University locations, including all regional campuses and cooperative extension centers. To see the complete Non-Storrs delivery schedule, please visit Non-Storrs Locations.

Receiving Deliveries from Central Stores

Below are important guidelines to follow when receiving your orders from Central Stores.

• You or someone in your department is required to sign for all Central Stores orders. The driver will present a manifest for your signature. Signature is required. The Central Stores driver is not permitted to "drop off" your order without one. Please be sure to count the cartons before signing. The best time to rectify the occasional under or over shipment is when it occurs rather than days or weeks after you signed off on the delivery manifest.
• Check the contents of the cartons immediately. Sometimes customers call to tell us that certain items are missing from their order but later discover that members of their department removed the items from the carton before the order was checked in.
• Before calling Central Stores to check on the status of an order you think has not been delivered, please check with staff members in your department who may have received the order for you.

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