Deltana MS626 Mail Slot 8-7/8" with Interior Frame

The MS626 is Deltana's 8-7/8 inch mail slot, so the through-door cutout has to suit that 8-7/8 inch size. It ships with the interior frame, meaning both faces of the door get covered once the slot is set into the cut. Deltana makes mail slots in more than one size, so if the door already has a cut from an older slot, measure it before you order the 8-7/8 inch version.

The interior frame comes with the MS626. That is the difference between a full mail slot like this one and a plain sleeve, which is only the tube through the door and leaves you sourcing the trim. With the MS626 you get the exterior flap plate and the matching interior frame in the same finish, so one order finishes both faces of the door.

A mail slot like the Deltana MS626 is the complete assembly, exterior flap plate plus the interior frame, cut into the door face. A sleeve, such as the Emtek 2281 Mail Slot Sleeve, is the liner that lines the cut through the door thickness. Buyers doing a thick door or a door with an exposed cut edge sometimes want both. If all you need is to tidy an existing slot's through-cut, the sleeve is the part; if you are cutting a fresh opening and want it trimmed on both faces, the MS626 is what finishes the job.

Solid brass, both the material and the substrate. That matters on an exterior door where the slot takes weather and daily use, since a plated pot-metal slot pits at the flap hinge first. Brass also means the painted black version is paint over brass, not a different base metal.

Nine finishes: PVD Polished Brass, Polished Brass, Antique Brass, Oil Rubbed Bronze, Brushed Nickel, Antique Nickel, Polished Chrome, Brushed Chrome, and Paint Black. If you are matching a building's existing door hardware, the PVD Polished Brass is the one to pick over standard Polished Brass for exterior exposure, since PVD is the coated version of the same look. Order the whole run in one finish code, the slot is finished on both the exterior plate and the interior frame.

Deltana classes the MS626 as commercial exterior hardware, and it is solid brass rather than a stamped residential part. Property managers standardizing mail slots across a multi-family building or a row of office entries can run the same model and finish on every door and order by unit, since it is sold each rather than in a carton pack.

Deltana mail slots go directly into the front door, cut into the face rather than mounted through the frame. The MS626 needs a rectangular through-cut sized to its 8-7/8 inch slot, and the interior frame covers the inside edge of that cut. Straightforward for a contractor or handyman with a router or jigsaw; on a metal or fire-rated door, cutting the face is not something to do without checking what that door assembly allows.