Ship to School Services for College Students in Colorado

Stress-Free Shiping to School

Whether you’re heading off to college for the first time or you’re returning to school after a great summer, getting your items to college can be a hassle. We can help you by having your items arrive to you at your new address the day you arrive at school. No matter if you are sending items from home or purchasing new ones, live on or off-campus, or are a new customer or a previous customer, we have you covered.

Why Use CSS Ship-to-School?

Whether you’re an incoming freshman or a returning student, Ship-to-School saves time, money, and the hassle of move-in day.

  • Have your items delivered the day you arrive.
  • Order furniture, bedding, and supplies early while they’re still in stock.
  • Ship purchases from Amazon, IKEA, Target, Costco, or any online retailer directly to CSS.
  • Combine Ship-to-School items with your Summer Storage delivery for one convenient move-in.
  • Free in-room delivery for on-campus students.
  • Add Handyman Services if you need furniture assembled after delivery.

 

Infographic titled “Why Families Choose CSS” with six icons and reasons, such as early ordering, shipping from any retailer, delivery options, handyman services, and a local, in-person team. - Colorado Student Storage

Two Easy Ways to Ship to School

A graphic explaining “Ship From Home” with five steps and icons: sending boxes, packing, shipping, storage, and delivery, next to a box labeled CSS containing household items. - Colorado Student Storage

Option1: Ship items from home to our office

  1. We email you UPS shipping tags, which you print out and apply to your boxes. (optional)
  2. You take to a UPS store or outlet near you or schedule a pick up at your home through UPS online (optional)
  3. UPS picks up your items and ships them to our office (optional)
  4. We store them in our warehouse and then deliver them to you when you arrive at school

NOTE: We can receive almost anything—not just boxes. Suitcases, duffel bags, ski bags, furniture, mattresses, and oversized items are all welcome.

Option 2: Ship items from a company to our office

  1. Create a CSS account
  2. Order your items from any company that you wish to purchase and have them shipped to us – Popular retailers include Amazon, IKEA, Target, Walmart, Costco, Wayfair, and more. Have everything shipped directly to CSS, and we’ll safely store your items until move-in day.
  3. Address these items to your student’s name along with their confirmation # to our office address
  4. Please note that if items are labeled to “College Student Storage” we will not accept them and return them to the sender. We deal with hundreds of items being shipped to us, they have to be clearly labeled with your student’s name and confirmation # on each item.
  5. Make sure to email our office and let us know how many items we will be receiving info@csstorage.com
  6. We store your items in our warehouse and then deliver them to you on the scheduling delivery dates for your school. Select your school to see our scheduled delivery dates for your school.
Five illustrated steps show: Register, Ship items, Store items, Move-in Day, and We Deliver, with simple icons for each step and brief explanatory text under each heading, describing a storage and delivery process. - Colorado Student Storage

Ship to School Info

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Make sure to leave 7 days from when you sign up for your box kit to arrive.

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Please make sure that all boxes/items are marked on all sides in marker with your name and confirmation # (which you receive at signup).

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All items need to be addressed to your student’s full name and confirmation # when we receive them.

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We ship all of our client’s belongings via UPS, a trusted leader in the shipping industry. We put $500 of insurance on the shipping tag we make for you

When We Deliver

No matter if you’re an early bird who’s packing months in advance or a late riser who’s packing up at the last second, we’ll store your boxes and deliver your belongings to your dorm or apartment, or house when you arrive at school. Take a look at our delivery schedule for your school.

  • At each school, one of our delivery dates always coincides with the first day that residence halls are open to incoming freshmen.
  • Most colleges and universities will NOT accept shipments to residence halls early. CSS stores them for you until the residence halls open!
  • For all Schools, you need to get us your ship-to-school items no later than August 7th
  • For all Schools outside CU Boulder, you need to check your school page for scheduled delivery dates. If you want a delivery outside our scheduled delivery dates at your school, there will be a special delivery fee based on what school you are located at.
Comparison chart showing CSS Shipping Box benefits (durable, heavy-duty, designed for shipping, UPS-approved) versus Typical Moving Box (single wall, less strong, not for shipping). Banner: “Stronger boxes. Better protection.”. - Colorado Student Storage
Icons for heavy-duty boxes, prepaid shipping labels, packing tape, box cutter, and wrapping paper. Text: “Everything you need to ship with confidence. Easy. Reliable. Stress-free.”. - Colorado Student Storage

⚠️ Important for Ship to School


On-Campus Students: Please include your residence hall move-in date/time and a parent's name and cell phone number in the Notes field when registering.

On move-in day, we'll call or text when we're on the way. Simply meet us in the lobby, escort us to your room, and we'll carry your items upstairs.

Infographic showing on-campus delivery: staff meet you in the lobby, escort you to your room, and carry items in. Yellow box says, “We call or text when we’re on the way!” with a phone icon. - Colorado Student Storage
Icons display items you can ship: boxes, suitcases, furniture, mattresses, beds, TVs and monitors, bikes, school supplies, ski and board gear, and more. - Colorado Student Storage

Pricing

Ship to School Receiving, Storage & Delivery

You can purchase items from retailers throughout the summer and deliver them to our office. We will then label them and put them in the warehouse with your student’s storage items and deliver everything on the day your student returns to school at their new address.

Tiny box/item
$10
Small box/item
$39
Medium box/item
$49
Large box/item
$59
XL box/item
$79
Furniture and other large items depend on size
$99+
Please don't ship us tiny items and envelopes, they get lost. Please try to have all your items shipped to us at the same time.
Box Kit
  • Your $59 deposit is for the box kit we ship to you and for reserving this service.
  • The cost to ship you a box kit is and depends on where we are shipping it, around $40-$60
  • The box kit we ship to you includes 6 LG boxes, 2 medium boxes, and a roll of tape
Shipping Labels

We can also make UPS labels for you from your home to our office and send them to you via email, along with $500 of insurance on each box. Once you've packed your moving boxes, attached the labels to them. we can help schedule a pickup with UPS. UPS will come to your home and pick up all your tagged boxes and items (like suitcases or duffel bags etc.) and ship them to our office. At CSS, we'll be ready and waiting to receive your boxes and items and put them in storage in our warehouse until you need them delivered to your student's new address when they return to school.

Shipping Charges
  • We can email you as many shipping tags as you need and schedule you a UPS pick-up at your house. you will only be charged for what tags you use.
  • Customers will be charged shipping rates for the UPS tags they use that we send them, based on our shipping chart of sending items from our warehouse to students' home addresses. View chart here.
  • Any items over 50 lbs will receive a $40 overweight surcharge
  • A $50 XL package surcharge will apply to a package that is considered an "XL Package" when its length plus girth [(2 x width) + (2 x height)] combined exceeds 130 inches
  • Any item not encased in cardboard will receive a UPS handling fee of $35
Additional Charge
If we move your "Ship to school" items past the ground floor, a moving fee of $175 per hour or $58 every 20 minute applies.
Shipping Rates & More Pricing
Summer Storage Pricing

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