mail room

noun

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

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Plans also call for a 4,340-square-foot community building with a leasing office and amenities, including a fitness center, lounge with kitchen, mail room, pool, spa, cabana, bicycle storage and pet area. Corey Schmidt, Sacbee.com, 27 Apr. 2026 The development with feature a lobby, community room, fitness center and mail room on its first floor, and then apartments on floors two through five. Sara Tenenbaum, CBS News, 13 Apr. 2026 The latest Keys to Change mail room contract appears unchanged from the 2009 agreement, according to Schwabenlender. Nicole Santa Cruz, ProPublica, 27 Oct. 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

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“Mail room.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mail%20room. Accessed 6 Jul. 2026.

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