I have recommended using Priority Mail in the hopes that the cover sheets
will get there within 5 days.   When I got the message from NSF requesting
that we NOT use a courier service, I sent an email to Bev Sherman outlining
my concerns.   I never received a reply.   Perhaps its time to talk with
those FastLane folks.

Frances Vinal Farnsworth
Coordinator of Sponsored Research
Munford House
MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE
Middlebury, VT 05753
Tel:  802-443-5889
Fax: 802-443-2081
email:  xxxxxx@middlebury.edu

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ruth Tallman [SMTP:xxxxxx@LEHIGH.EDU]
> Sent: Friday, February 05, 1999 11:03 AM
> To:   xxxxxx@hrinet.org
> Subject:      FastLane cover pages
>
> TGIF Everyone!
>
> We are struggling with an issue regarding sending the FastLane
> cover sheets and signed certification pages to NSF (U.S. mail
> vs courier service).  We received a message from NSF
> about a month or so ago requesting that institutions send
> the cover sheets via U.S. mail because signing for courier
> packages is so time consuming and opening courier packages
> is also time consuming and cumbersome.  The point was also
> made that, if mailed on the day of the FastLane submission,
> there should be no problem with the cover page reaching NSF
> within 5 working days.  (Yeah, right!)
>
> Did you get the same message from NSF?
> How are you dealing with this?  Are you still sending them
> using courier services?  If not, how are you sending them?
>
> Ruth
>
> Ruth Tallman
> Office of Research and Sponsored Programs
> Lehigh University
> e-mail: xxxxxx@lehigh.edu
> phone: (610) 758-3024
>
>
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