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mailroom

n. In an office, a room in which mail and package shipments are prepared and deliveries accepted.

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Mailroom

A mailroom (US) or post room (UK) is a room in which incoming and outgoing mail is processed and sorted. Mailrooms are commonly found in schools, offices, apartment buildings, and the generic post office. A person who works in a mailroom is known as a mailroom clerk or mailboy and the head person (sometimes the only person) is called the postmaster. The mailroom is responsible for a company's incoming and outgoing mail. A mailroom clerk prepares outgoing mail and packages prior to their being sent out via the post office or other carrier.

In a large organization, the mailroom is the central hub of the internal mail system and the interface with external mail. The postmaster manages the department, clerks assist them and mailboys deliver mail for other employees in different departments using a mail cart or a trolley doing regular rounds throughout the day. Sometimes the mailboys will trolley sort using the departmental slots on the trolley to reduce work at the central hub and to speed internal mail.

In a small organization, or within a department or a large organization, a mailroom can be associated with the breakroom; these rooms can be combined into one. For instance, a mailroom can contain an area for employees to take a break. Besides pigeon-hole messageboxes, this area might have a kitchenette with a coffee maker, microwave, table and chairs, refrigerator, sink, pantry, or oven.

Usage examples of "mailroom".

I sat down and clicked into the Majestic electronic mailroom to find the message.

So we have already made arrangements to establish an alternative mailroom, to handle our serious business.

Unexpectedly, his thoughts went to the job his former boss had offered him, to return to the mailroom with a promise of management training.

Those that did arrive were routed by the mailroom to an elderly secretary in public relations, Elsie Young, who bad been on the special staff but bad since returned to her regular job.

Brian had been nothing, a mailroom clerk, where he was division manager.

The mailroom was a paper nightmare, each day subjected to an avalanche of more, moving two ways, though outgoing paper seldom equaled the inward flow.

You knew where the legal department was, and how to get a package through the mailroom without delay, and whom to see about tax deductions, and what to do when your water carafe sprang a leak.

But I began to come along, getting out of the mailroom in only four months, which they told me was close to the record.

The mail of a dozen likely candidates, intercepted thanks to a man in the mailroom who had been caught organizing a Super Bowl pool on Museum time.

A mail daemon program actually handled all mail activity, as it had done when they worked in the mailroom in reality -- which is why they had to immediately throw out any letters they got, lest the program mail them twice.

Second and third opportunities came along when the books she'd requested began to filter up from the mailroom, and finally he asked her out and they went to see a film together.

Our maple leaf will probably have it sent by train from Ottawa to Vancouver and then on a slow freighter to Hong Kong where it'll get lost in the mailroom.