What:

The United States Postal Service (USPS) is staging mail drop-off points for high school senior students who are marching to send off their college applications.  USPS Triboro District representatives will be accepting the students’ applications. 

This year the USPS, Triboro District – in collaboration with NYC Outward Bound Schools representatives – have commissioned a special postmark which commemorates the 2015 Student March.

Great photo opportunity to share with the community.

When:

Friday, December 11, 2015

Where and Times

10:40am – 11:00am – Red Hook Post Office, add address, Brooklyn, NY 11231. Brooklyn Collaborative School marching as a group to the post office to send their college applications.

11:00am-12:30pm – USPS Mail Truck situated in East Flatbush at Tilden Avenue and 57th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11203. Kurt Hahn school students marching as a group to drop off applications with USPS representatives.

11:30am-1:00pm – USPS Mail Truck situated in Forest Hills on Juno St. between 69th & 70th Ave in front of the Playground of PS 144, Flushing NY 11375. Forest Hills school students will drop off outgoing college applications at the truck where a USPS representative will greet them.

11:30am-1:00pm – USPS Mail Truck situated in Benson Hurst at Bay 43rd Street between Benson & Bath Aves (closer to Benson, by school door), Brooklyn, NY 11214 Leaders School students will march as a group to drop off college applications with USPS representatives.

11:30am-1:00pm – USPS Mail Truck situated in New Springville at 100 Essex Drive, Staten Island, NY 10314 – next to the Gaynor McCown Expeditionary Learning school’s staff parking lot at the end of the Marsh Avenue school’s driveway,.  Students from the school will march to meet with postal representatives to send their applications.

11:30am-1:00pm – USPS Representative inside the Channel View School, in Far Rockaway, Queens 11694. Students will gather in the auditorium where a USPS representative will collect their college applications.

Who:

USPS Representatives Students, teachers and NYC Outward Bound Representatives

Background:

The Triboro District continues its long standing tradition of community outreach and partnership in service.  Over 700 seniors from across the 5-borough network of schools will march their college applications out the front doors of their schools and to postal representatives. Along the way students will be cheered on by more than 3000 members of their school, communities, local business leaders, politicians, and other supporters collectively. The March is gaining nationwide participation since it began in 2011 by New York City’s Outward Bound Wheels Schools.  

More about NYC Outward Bound can be found at: http://www.nycoutwardbound.org.