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Estates Department disruption to services on Friday 14 December

In order to permit members of the Estates Department to participate in their Christmas lunch, the following areas will be closed, or operating a reduced service from 11.30 on Friday 14 December:

  • Estates Customer Services will be closed from 11.30 and will re-open again at 08.00 on Monday 17 December. Anyone with enquiries about emergency defects should contact Campus Security on extension 3300. Authorised intranet users can still report non-essential defects via the Estates intranet service or email estatescustomerservices@kent.ac.uk
  • The Estates Department reception will be closed from 11.30 and will re-open at 08.30 on Monday 17 December.
  • The main Switchboard will be closed from 11.30 and will re-open again at 08.30 on Monday 17 December. If you would like any diverts set up on your landline or mobile devices, please email telexchange@kent.ac.uk before Friday.
  • Postal Services will not be delivering or collecting mail after 11.30. Timings will be brought forward for the departments that normally have their first or only delivery/collection after this time. The Post Room will be closed between 11.30 and 15.00 and the Postal Counter for personal mail will not be open on this day. If mail volumes are not excessive, outgoing items collected before 11.30 should still be processed on the same day. Urgent items of business mail may be hand delivered to the Post Room between 15.00-15.30, where they will be processed in order of priority.

All other areas of the Estates Department will be operating as usual. In particular, the Design & Print Centre and the Security & Transport Centre will remain open.

We apologise for any inconvenience caused, and would like to wish you all a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!