Deltana MS627 Mail Slot 8-7/8" with Back Plate

The MS627 is Deltana's 8-7/8 inch mail slot, so plan your door cut around that 8-7/8 inch size and dry-fit the flap plate over the opening before you commit. It ships with a back plate, so the inside face of the door gets finished off too, no separate interior trim to buy.

Solid brass throughout, both the substrate and the material of record. That matters on an exterior door where a zinc or aluminum slot chalks and pits; brass takes weather and keeps holding screw threads in the door face.

Nine finishes: PVD Polished Brass, Polished Brass, Antique Brass, Oil Rubbed Bronze, Brushed Nickel, Antique Nickel, Polished Chrome, Brushed Chrome, and Paint Black. PVD Polished Brass is the one to specify on a weather-exposed entry if you want the brass look to hold without recurring polish; standard Polished Brass is the match if the rest of the door hardware is unlacquered or already patinating.

No. The MS627 is sold with its back plate, so you get both faces of the door covered in one order. What that does not include is a through-wall sleeve, which is a different part entirely, needed only when the mail passes through a wall rather than a door leaf. Emtek's 2281 Mail Slot Sleeve is the sleeve-style item if that is your situation.

The Deltana MS627 is a mail slot in an 8-7/8 inch size that comes with a back plate, so you get the exterior flap and the interior plate as one solid brass assembly. The Emtek 2281 is a mail slot sleeve, which is the lining that spans the thickness of the door between the two plates rather than the faceplate itself. If you are outfitting a door from scratch and want the visible hardware on the outside plus the interior cover, the MS627 is the plated unit; the 2281 addresses the through-door opening.

Deltana lists the MS627 as commercial, and it installs directly into the door face the same way on either. Property managers running a row of units get the practical benefit: one model, one cut size, one finish across every door.

Cut into the door leaf when the mail should land inside the entry and the door is thick enough to take the cut, which is what the MS627 is built for, front plate outside and back plate inside. Go to a sleeve instead when you are passing mail through a wall or a thicker assembly than a door leaf. Emtek's 2281 Mail Slot Sleeve covers that case. One decides where the mail lands, the other decides what it passes through.

They do different jobs on the same opening. The Emtek 2281 is a sleeve for a mail slot, meaning it lines the cut-through in the door. The Deltana MS627 is the 8-7/8 inch mail slot supplied with a back plate for the interior face. On a thicker door, a sleeve is what bridges the gap between faces, so it complements a slot rather than replacing one - ordering the 2281 alone will not give you the exterior flap the MS627 provides.

The Deltana MS627 is solid brass and is offered in Polished Brass, PVD Polished Brass, Antique Brass, Oil Rubbed Bronze, Brushed Nickel, Antique Nickel, Polished Chrome, Brushed Chrome, and Paint Black, so a property manager standardizing a run of doors can hold one finish across the fleet. The Emtek 2281 is identified by its Mail Slot series and is the sleeve component, so finish matching on the visible face is decided by the slot and back plate you pair it with.