Letter Sorter  

For some added organization on your desktop a letter sorter will be just the thing to keep papers and envelopes in a good spot until they can be moved to a more appropriate location.  Piles of papers or papers scattered haphazardly on your desk is a good way to misplace something important.  Having a handy place to put these papers on your desk is an efficient way to set up your workspace to maintain a clutter-free and effective area.

There are a few different designs that can be classified as a letter style sorter.  There are big units with various slots or spaces to slide in envelopes or letter sized paper.  You can find these with as few as 10 sections up to about 80 or more sections to accommodate varying needs for sorting mail and other literature.  These are high volume sorters and are effective for inter office organization of mid to large sized offices.

As a desktop sorter, you can find a few different models to be most useful depending on your situation.  If the space on your desk is limited, then you can use a design that is wall mounted, which can still be conveniently reached while you’re sitting at the desk.  Determine how many sections you need for your immediate-reach papers and mail and start looking with those specifications in mind.  While you’re checking out the many different options, you’ll be able to see the decorative aspects available to best suit your existing décor and personal preferences.

A see-through curvy design, manufactured by CEP has 3 stepped sections that provide high visibility through the ice blue polystyrene.  This sectioned sorter takes up little space on a desk and will help maintain a tidier workspace.  It will hold legal size papers with its width and has a groove in the front to hold a pen and/or business cards.  Every desk could use one of these for some kind of organizing and the ice blue colour gives it an appealing and professional look.  You could stick your daily mail in here, place a few file folders that you want easy access to and have a handy place for business cards.

This next unit will take up a bit more room but offers an array of storage and sections to help with a few different cluttering issues.  Part of their Carina Collection, Ameriwood manufactures a storage shelf with the sorting slots to organize letters or other appropriately sized items.  It has a removable drawer that can be used in three different places to best suit your needs, and has 5 vertical legal or letter sized slots and 5 horizontal slots with one of them being the whole width of the unit and the other four being half the width.  The overall dimensions are 35” high X 27” wide X 19” deep.

Whichever style best suits your storage and sorting requirements, a letter sorter helps hold those stray papers and organizes those items that haven’t seemed to find their proper place yet.  You’ll work happier and more efficiently when everything has a place and when there is a place for everything.