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Office & Administration vocabulary · Reception, Visitors & Post

Incoming mail

Meaning in office & administration, with examples

nounCommon term

In office & administration, incoming mail means: Letters, parcels, and other postal items that arrive at an office from outside senders.

In Turkish: gelen posta

How it is used

Used in reception, mailrooms, and office procedures for sorting, date-stamping, logging, and distributing deliveries.

Example sentences

  1. All incoming mail is sorted at reception before noon and then delivered to each department with a signature sheet.

    Here, incoming mail means physical postal items entering the organisation and being processed through an internal routine.

  2. Please check the incoming mail tray for the signed lease, because the courier said it arrived this morning.

    In this example, the term refers to newly arrived post waiting to be collected, sorted, or passed on.

Common collocations

  • incoming mail tray
  • incoming mail log
  • sort incoming mail
  • incoming mail room
  • courierA person or company that collects and delivers parcels and documents quickly and directly, often on the same day.
  • sign forTo write your signature to confirm that you have received a parcel, letter or delivery.

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