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# Mail Items

A **Mail Item** is a single piece of physical mail received at one of your [Lockboxes](../lockboxes/overview). Each Mail Item carries the scans of what arrived — the envelope, the check, any accompanying paperwork — and can produce one or more [Donations](../donations/overview) and a [Deposit](../deposits/overview).

Use Mail Items to:

* Track what physical mail you've received and its review status.
* Access the scanned images of the mail piece.
* Trace a Donation or Deposit back to the piece of mail it came from.

See [The Mail Item object](object) for the full schema.