1. Facilities Management and Campus Services
  2. Materials Management
  3. Central Receiving

Central Receiving

Central Receiving is located in the south end of the Dorland Building and serves as NIU's central location for:

  • Accepting and processing all parcels, preparing them for distribution to university departments
  • Assistance with shipping return items to vendors

Address: 180 W. Stadium Drive, DeKalb, IL 60115

Return Procedure

Your department is responsible for obtaining a return authorization from the vendor, affixing a return label to the package and arranging pick-up from Central Receiving with the carrier. Once this has been done, and if needed, you may contact Distribution Services to pick up your package and deliver it to Central Receiving.

Personal Purchases Notice

The university's central receiving and distribution operations function is to receive and deliver items purchased with university funds for university use. As such, personal purchases by faculty and staff should not be shipped to the university as an alternative to an individual's home address.

Note: any packages which cannot be clearly identified by the address label may be opened to identify the addressee or may be refused and returned.