The below is an updated post from a June 2025.
UMBC Procurement & Strategic Sourcing is excited to announce we have implemented Dedicated Delivery with Amazon Business for the entire UMBC campus (1000 Hilltop Circle). This does not apply to Shady Grove, Rita Rossi Colwell Center, or either Research Park location.
Dedicated Delivery (DD) is a shipping option that consolidates packages going to a single business address onto pallets. With DD, Amazon optimizes for consolidation over speed, delivering purchases together on a pallet, during the same time window every day, and enabling faster drop off with one pallet scan from the delivery driver instead of multiple scans for parcel deliveries.
This is a much more sustainable, consistent, and reliable delivery method. Packages will then be sorted at the UMBC Warehouse and delivered across campus by staff from Retriever Card Center & Mail Services to the final delivery location on campus.
When placing orders with Amazon Business you should select the FREE Dedicated Delivery option at checkout whenever available so orders will arrive on a DD pallet (as shown below).
Please note that there are some items that are not eligible for DD. Hazmat, heavy, bulky, or merchant-fulfilled items are ineligible for DD and will continue to be shipped via parcel delivery. In addition, this is only for items that are both fulfilled by Amazon
It is our hope that this change will significantly decrease any errors with Amazon package delivery and increase customer satisfaction.
Please be sure to select this delivery option when it is available for Amazon Business purchases. Thank you.