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by rsmith1

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Company/employers right to open mail addressed to its address and sent to a named employee

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by herrhepcatt

Generally, if a company has no written policy about this issue, (many do), then the company has the right to open email addressed to it's employee. If the e-mail address was provided to you for business purposes, it is the company's business to know yours. There are lots of details to this discussion though, but here is a basic answer.

by al macintyre

Even with no company policy, there are some laws on the subject ... I believe that there ought to be general disclosure to the employees ... if no one is reading your mail, then that needs to be enforced.

If you have a computer system in which itis impossible to enforce, then the people should know that.

We also have listening into phone conversations ... there needs to be some kind of recorded beep sound to tell outside callers that their phone converstations might be monitored & for what business reasons.

by al macintyre

The mail is not to YOU - it is to the COMPANY attention you ... COMPANY first ... you second ... thus it is entirely up to corporation policy whether or not there is a rule ... deliver mail unopened to addressee, have a receptionist open the mail & determine if it is junk advertising to pitch or who it really should go to, or whether the individual employees are to be given the right to tell the receptionist what their preferences are.

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