So SueB, you work at the university in question? You seem to know an awful lot about the place. Did you attend the institution as a student, or have you worked there as an employee?

Again, you missed the point entirely. There are a couple of pieces that go into identifying you for package pick-up, whether you are a student at a university, or Joe or Jill citizen at the post office. Just to pick up mail you receive a notice for, you need a LEGAL photo ID (and student IDs, like employee IDs are not legal outside the university or workplace), and notification slip. If you are picking up mail from a PO box, which is the case in this instance, I believe, you also are identified in the computer as the renter of mailbox #1234, which may or may not get checked by the staff at the time you pick up the mail/package.

We all understand that a drivers license and passport are legal forms of id. But apparently, some of you paranoid rebel types haven't gotten the memo yet that schools, universities, hospitals, and businesses all use ID cards nowadays. It would be authoritarian to do spot checks to see if people have them, or to control peoples' movement with them. But to verify the person is not only who they say they are, but can also prove they are a student vs. a roommate of the students, whom they are fighting with, and who happened to pick up their notice slip from the pile of mail left on the table....