The central post office will primarily perform the following tasks:
Contact and receiving point
- contact point for all University employees in all mail and dispatch matters
- first point of contact for all University suppliers and, if necessary, forwarding to other areas
- acceptance of deliveries for the administration of the University Library
- contact person and key issuing for the craftsmen in the University Library
Incoming mail
- acceptance of letters and parcels; documentation tasks incoming mail
- determination of the recipient for whom the respective mail item is intended
- delivery by sorting into the appropriate mailboxes, distribution within the University Library or transfer to the internal courier service
- processing of parcels with returns, loans / interlibrary loans and book shipments from suppliers; verification of book invoices.
- book transport service: unpacking of tubs, sorting and distribution by library; repacking of shipments from Gotha Research Library and University of Applied Sciences Erfurt for onward transport
- keeping the incoming mail book of the university library
Outgoing mail
- documentation tasks for outgoing mail, compilation of data for surveys and statistics on mail and parcel volumes
- determination and recording of all relevant data for franking as well as cost and performance accounting in the respective software for all outgoing mail
- enveloping, franking and handover to driver, mail delivery service or courier
- handing over media deliveries to courier
- packing of parcels for returns and bookbinders
- processing of interlibrary loans for book transport dervice or postal shipment
- preparation of customs shipments