While apartment housing units and office buildings
represent two very different types of organizations, their structures and
functions are often very similar.
Both are managed by a leasing authority who rents space to tenants for
either residential or commercial purposes.
Consequently, building mail centers are needed in both types of
facilities. It is essential that
building managers be aware of the guiding principles of mail box design in order
to choose the best apartment mailboxes or office mailboxes for their
tenants.
The most important factors to consider are the attributes of the wall
in which the mail boxes will be mounted.
Wall space determines the number, size, and configuration of a mail
cluster. The status of the wall as
either a new construction or a remodel also plays a role. Finally, the presence of a corridor or a
room behind the building mail center plays a major determining role in what kind
of apartment mailboxes or office mailboxes can be mounted on that
wall.
Building managers must begin the assessment process with measurements
of wall space. If the wall is
particularly long, and there are not that many tenants, then vertical,
front loading mailboxes can be used.
One of the major advantages these mailboxes offer is easy delivery that
often results in more accurate delivery as well. When mail carriers can simply drop mail
into the box from the front, they can catch mistakes much more easily than they
might when folding or bending mail to load from the
rear.
Another advantage that front loading apartment mailboxes and office
mailboxes offer to users is more room for larger envelops. The vertical shaft of the box is large
enough to eliminate the need to fold larger envelops and crease their
contents.
However, building mail centers with limited wall space and large
numbers of tenants may need front loading horizontal
mail boxes. While these are
still easier for mail carriers to access, mail must be folded, and space within
individual box units is significantly less than that of vertical
counterparts.
The nature of the wall itself is the next consideration to take into
account when choosing apartment
mailboxes and office mailboxes.
Mail boxes can be recess mounted to the wall or surface mounted to the
wall. Recessed mounting
always creates a more symmetrical building mail center than surface
mounting. While this is easy to
accommodate in new constructions, remodeling often requires surface
mounting.
Finally, the presence of a corridor or mail room behind the wall is
the final determining factor in choosing apartment mailboxes or office mailboxes
for building mail centers. Rear
loading mail boxes, while not as convenient for mail carriers to access, offer
users maximum security. However,
they can only be accessed from a space behind the wall.
If the building cannot accommodate such a space, then surface
mounted, horizontal, front loading units must be used in order to work around
both limited wall space itself ant the lack of available space behind the wall
as well.
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