mail room

noun

: the room in an office where mail is handled
He has a job in the mail room.

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Then after those buttons are pushed, someone else at the SSA has to prepare a letter explaining what happened and then that letter has to go through the SSA’s mail room and then to the U.S. Postal Service and finally to the recipient’s mailbox. Tom Margenau, Dallas Morning News, 8 Feb. 2026 His letters and packages are delivered to a mail room for homeless people in the building at the Keys to Change campus, a collaborative of 15 nonprofit organizations that serve those like him. Nicole Santa Cruz, ProPublica, 27 Oct. 2025 The first floor will not have retail space, but instead have a conference room, mail room, and other tenant amenities. Theresa Clift, Sacbee.com, 27 Sep. 2025 One user recalled how working in a university mail room in 2001 gave them an early glimpse of Amazon's growing footprint. Lydia Patrick, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 June 2025 According to police, the two grabbed a garbage bag, forced open the door and stuffed seven packages from the building’s mail room into the bag; Robbins was the lookout during the burglary and had the bag when cops arrested him that same day. Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 6 Apr. 2025 Historically, roles in a company’s contact center or mail room were seen as the best way to learn about the business from the bottom up and get a shot at climbing the corporate ladder. Kolawole Samuel Adebayo, Forbes, 29 Dec. 2024 Three other tents house a mail room, caseworkers and a cafeteria, where Venezuelan toddlers rub shoulders with Asian children over blaring salsa music. Luis Ferré-Sadurní, New York Times, 23 Dec. 2024

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“Mail room.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mail%20room. Accessed 3 Mar. 2026.

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