# Department

APIs for retrieving department records and their associated contacts. They are used to organize and access address book data at a department level for operational and administrative workflows.

 - [GET /api/v1/departments](https://docs.shipping360.pitneybowes.com/openapi/addressbook/department/getdepartments.md): This operation retrieves all the departments. (For now, departments can only be created from the UI.)
 - [GET /api/v1/departments/{departmentId}/contacts](https://docs.shipping360.pitneybowes.com/openapi/addressbook/department/getdepartmentcontacts.md): This operation retrieves all the contacts of the specified department