I imagine that has more to do with the prison itself and the procedure following the mail delivery and not the actual transit time to and from the UK. I might be wrong but it stands to reason that if you are paying the same amount of postage and sending the letter by the same method, the delay is more likely to be caused by the mail room or how backed up they are or whatever else is going on within the prison itself. Personal mail will never be top priority as legal mail is time sensitive so that would need to be screened and dispersed first.

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Hi, I am new here. I have been writing to a penpal in Hughes Unit in Texas now for a couple of months now. I live in Australia too. It usually takes about 9 - 10 days for me to receive a letter from him, but it only takes 7 days to get there with mine. Not much of a difference. I guess it just depends on the people in the mail room. I hope this helps.

That really sucks that the mail has taken about a month to get to the prisoner. Maybe the prisons should hire more ppl to work in the mailroom, so the inmates could get the letters from their pen-pals.
I've written to my pen-pal in Huntsville, Tx and he hasn't written back. (I live in South Tx) Maybe in my case, his privleges have been taken away. ?????
He says he likes me and I like him too, so why would he take long?

Many things can come in the way of mail. Sometimes offenders go through periods where they get overwhelmed and it slows them down a bit, or the unit could be on lockdown, he could be low on funds and may not have the postage or writing materials to write straight away. Maybe send him a funny greeting card or even a post card in the in between time ?

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ASE, thanks for the info about DR and Security Threat. My pp is in Ad Seg as a Security Threat. I knew our mail - any mail to anybody - was going to be read, but his takes the absolute longest to get back. I write a lot so he had probably like 3 letters from me before I ever got my first reply. He didn't even realize I hadn't had his first reply yet.

Now the thought of them scanning and keeping - THAT is something. I write pages and pages and I feel for the poor slobs who have to read my monologues. Someone who is looking forward to it can appreciate a 20 page letter, someone who is doing it for a living is probably bored stiff.

Maybe sometimes just stiff, but that's for another post. LOL.

My last letter to my penpal in Polunsky took 20 days to reach him! xxx

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Hello, does anybody know if it's allowed to send an optional postcard what I bought, from Europe to Texas TDCJ? Thanks so much in advance

Postcards are not a problem if you use the correct address, use a return address . Do not contain nudity or maps . Just follow normal TDCJ correspondence rules .

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Thanks so much I would like to send it in an envelope, I mean the envelope included the postcard. Do you think if the embossed printing on the birthday card is allowed? Thanks again

OMG is this true that a mail has taken about one month to get to the prisoner???