Graduate With a Profit : Make Money While in School

This goes right along with the PostalMethods entry, but I divided it into two posts to emphasize two points.

IDEA: For college kids, there is a central postal box on campus. Do you know how easy this would be to start on a college campus, but with a twist. Not many students physically send mail letters anymore unless they are thank you cards or packages. HOWEVER, what does every college student have in common at the post office? They have a personal box! This means that each student must at some point or another get out of their dorm, go to the PO, check their box, and most likely throw away the junk offers or bring their letters back to their dorms.

WHAT TO DO: Start a business that does the OPPOSITE of THIS business! Have a service that students will pay you to check their PO Boxes for you, and deliver it to their dorms! The students would have to sign a waiver giving you permission to check their PO Boxes, give you their box combination, dorm number, and a small monthly fee - like $3 or so. Get a group of kids to do it, that’s an easy extra couple bucks in your pocket every month. Even better - offer the service as a discount to fraternities and sororities for $2 per person for anyone in the organization. Often times at schools, fraternity brothers will live in the same house, and some have very large dorm style houses. What do the students get out of this? For a small $3/month fee, they dont ever have to go back to the PO Box which is normally a daily routine and have more freedom knowing that if they ever get anything, it’ll be delivered straight to their door. And another thing, if you get a large group of kids to do this, all you would need to do is check all of the boxes at the same time, and deliver them at the same time, so maybe an hour’s worth of work would be done for the day, no need to go back and forth. I haven’t done any number crunching, but I would think it would be successful.

I’d love to hear your comments on this one. I wish I thought of this earlier when I was in school.