Postage Accounts and Postage Account Numbers

With the move to Work Day Finance on July 1, 2023, UW Mailing Services will start processing postage charges for the University of Washington and UW Medicine through a new department postage account program. Departments will need a postage account number (PAN) to create a postage barcode that will be used when printing envelopes and business reply products. This PAN will also be needed if you request barcode stickers from UW Mailing Services. Your postage account number will be required if you want to ship anything through FedEX or UPS through UW Mailing Services, and the number will also be required for certain types of mailing done through Mail Prep.

The postage account program and the assigned PANs will replace the budget number barcode program.

To create a new postage account, please use the link below to access the postage account web form. You will be required to provide your work tag(s) in order to submit the form. If the work tag(s) you want to use already has an associated postage account, the postage account number will automatically come up and you will be prompted to add your name to the postage account if you want to.

Questions about postage accounts and the barcodes generated from a postage account number can be sent to barcode@uw.edu.

Create a Postage Account and Number
Postage Account Barcode Labels

Mailing Services is proud to connect the University campus with timely and accurate postal services. Services include:

  • Collection, processing, and distribution of internal campus mail,
  • Incoming and outgoing United States Postal Service (USPS) mail,
  • Distribution of many products and services

98195!

Our exclusive ZIP code, 98195 makes Mailing Services a full service post office on campus. Count on us to deliver and collect your mail at least once a day to campus and many off campus locations. Our efficient box number system ensures that each department  receives mail service each day.

We are here and happy to serve your needs so please don't hesitate to give us a call or e-mail: for help or to answer your mail or shipping questions.

FAQs

Mailing Services processes UW business mail but has a (Mail Store) in the Mail, Copy & Receiving Center at UW Tower C-LL that is open Monday – Friday 8:00 a.m. – 3:30 p.m.. They sell stamps and can mail U.S. Postal Service, UPS, FedEx shipments.

Those Brown Mail Boxes are for use by faculty, staff and students to send letter and small items through intra-campus mail postage free to another UW department or recipient using the Box Number system. Make sure the item has an official Box Number like 359010 on it with the correct box number and we will be happy to deliver it.

Mailing Services has several locations:

  • Our main facility is located at 3900 7th Ave NE off the Burke Gilman Trail on the edge of West Campus close to the I-5 Ship Canal Bridge and is open from 8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Mon-Fri
  • Our UW Tower Mail & Receiving operation is located a C-LL (loading dock) and is open from 7:30 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. Mon – Fri
  • Copy & Mail Center location, a service of Copy & Mailing Services, is open from 8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Mon – Fri.

You can e-mail us directly at mailserv@uw.edu anytime or call our main number at 206.543.8757 and even after hours you can leave a message and someone will return your call the next business operating day.