Van Delivery/Distribution
Heartland AEA provides van delivery service to each school in the Agency’s service area. Materials shared between schools through interlibrary loan can be delivered via our vans as well.
Delivery Details
Media resources and other agency communications are delivered to each school building and AEA office on a scheduled basis during the school year (twice a week) and summer (once a week to district offices and to other buildings by request). Delivery schedules for each district and building should be posted in school/district offices and staff rooms.
Your building or office also has one drop site where borrowed items to be returned to Heartland AEA are to be placed for pickup. Correspondence or items being sent back to the Agency should be addressed properly to ensure delivery to the correct person, office and department. Please include on the address label or envelope:
How to Address Your Delivery Label
From: YOUR NAME
To: RECIPIENT
BUILDING, CITY
VAN ROUTE
Van Route Schedule
2023 Summer Van Routes (begin on June 19)
Delivery Fast Facts
- 6 full-time and part-time drivers (substitutes also pictured)
- 11 routes
- 408 stops a week
- Approximately 4,250 miles driven a week
- In a given month, we may deliver over 15,000 items from our lending library!
Van Drivers |
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 Jamie Badger |
 Herb Bergstrom |
 Matt Fisher |
 Stan Landon |
 Scott Mayne |
 Larry McAtee |
 Jennifer Thompson |
 Dennis Vogel |
Matt Wellendorf |
 Jim Wichman |
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Van Delivery Guidelines for External Organizations
Overview of Delivery Service
Iowa’s AEAs provide regular van delivery service to public districts and accredited non-public schools. This service is an integral part of the AEAs’ mission to improve student achievement.
On occasion, external organizations make requests for their materials to be distributed through an agency’s van delivery service. The following guidelines and procedures have been established to determine an organization’s eligibility for delivery. It is our intention to ensure necessary standardization and efficiencies for staff who handle items to be distributed, privacy for teachers and school districts and compliance with U.S. Postal regulations and the Iowa Code.
All requests for delivery of materials and information must be entered into the Request for Delivery of Materials Through Iowa’s AEAs Van Delivery Service form. Once decisions about the request have been made, requesters will be notified within 5 business days by someone from Iowa’s AEAs to confirm next steps.
Iowa’s AEAs Van Delivery Guidelines
Important Contacts
Dustin Gean
- Director of Facilities & Operations