hello All

I need some help!

My name is Gea Storey and I have been married to the most wonderfull man on this planet.
But i need some help.
Ever since we have been married we don't get eachothers mail. tomorrow we will be maried 4 months.
And it is getting to me right now.
So what I had in mind is very simple!

I am in Holland right now where i live and i can't do much from here but i do know i have a lot of suporters on the net. I HOPE!!!!!

What if all of you out there would send my hubby a card telling him to write his wife maybe! just maybe these people who are holding our mail will have no time to monitor all of the mail that is comming in or out to him.

That way i can get his mail and he will get mine!

So who is willing to help me with this mail campaign that i have planned.
All you have to do is send him a card that's all....

His address is :

WAlter T Storey # 990093
Potosi correctional center
Route 2 box 2222
Mineral point
Mo 63660
U.S.A.

And maybe , Just maybe i can get back in touch with my hubby again.
I miss him and need to hear from him.......


Thank you for helping and let me know if you did send him a card........

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namaste
Gea Storey

Is he getting your mail? Are you sure he has been writing? How often do you write to one another? How many letters do you guess you have not received? Can you prove it? If so that is what you need to be addressing. Neither of you have received even one letter in 4 months, is this correct or am I misunderstanding you? If you want to make certain he gets one then send it certified mail, return receipt. This may annoy them and then perhaps they will be more diligent in making sure at least he gets his mail. If not then bombard them with certified mail letters so that you know he is getting them.

After he does start to get your letters then you might want to consider printing on the envelope somewhere in a designated spot a number. Number all of your envelopes in this manner so that he knows if he has not received one. After he gets envelope number one then he should receive number two. If he gets three but not two then you know there is a problem. The mailroom will catch on to the fact that you have a system set up to keep track of whether or not he is getting your mail and might be a bit more careful with his mail than the others. Just a suggestion.

He can not receive mail without a return address. And we all know that you should not give out your home address to just any prison facility since there are all kinds of scams that occur once the wrong person gets your address. So I'm not sure how we would be able to mail cards to him. I suppose if you wanted us to put your home address on it or another address then it might get to him. But you understand why it is not wise for us to give ours out.

What address would you like for us to put on our envelopes. Perhaps a P.O. Box?

josh has this problem as well! he has a pen pal in Finnland so she sends him the postage and i get the letters and send them on with the postage she sends. it works. do you need something like this?

What's the problem with him getting the mail from another country? I don't understand. Does it just take longer? Or do they tell him it's contraband and refuse to let him have it? What do they do when they receive it?

Some people may not realize but some prison authorities do NOT like inmates getting mail from overseas. And, if you marry the inmate it makes it worse. Believe me, I've seen it happen a lot and since I agreed to marry Tony our mail has been subjected to all sorts of delays and theft. It doesn't happen all the time and it never happened until it was obvious this was developing in to something other than friendship. Some of our mail has never shown up and is no doubt swimming in the Atlantic never to be seen again!!
It is very common, no matter what state you are in, for mail going to and from Europe to be subjected to this sort of interference from the COs in the mailroom. And it doesn't matter how you number them, the letters etc. still get lost.
The only way around it seems to be for us the rent a P.O. Box over there and have all mail redirected from that box. This costs us more money but, from those who do this, it works. We shouldn't have to resort to these means but it's the only was to make sure we get letters from our loved ones.

Rose

Why do they care where the mail comes from. What difference would it make to them. It's not like they had to make the trip to get it. Are they jealous that inmates may one day be able to visit a place they can never afford to go to and perhaps once off probation move there and be happy. I don't get the reasoning for it. Any clue?

For me the suggestion by MsVeggie worked. Certified mail even really gets their attention. According to our regional Post Office, if you can prove that you have sent him mail (Certified) and that he has not received it (he has to sign for it if it is certified), then you tell them (the post master) and they will research it. Plus the numbering system works, and in addition I date mine on the back. All the letters have a sequence. When ours start missing, then they go certified again. All money orders go certified no matter what.. The only way to make the mail room care is if they will get in trouble for what they are messing up. So you have to take the steps to enforce your husband's legal right to receive his mail, and send mail.

I agree it sounds like the prison just may not be giving him your mail. Sounds like you might need to go through someone in the states and send them the mail and then have them send it for you. I hope it works out for you and you finally get to hear from him.

Hmm, never thought about the numbering thing with the envelopes....very nice thought! And the dating is good too.

Sorry, I had to say that I enjoy reading some of the ideas that others provide. I agree that the numbering and dating ideas work. I would do the certified mail thing until he starts to receive them. Like LeFay said, if you can prove that you sent it but he hasnt received it, they have to investigate! Good luck!

The prison in Oklahoma has received my special-delivery letter on the 12th Aug so today it makes 22 days and no letter to me from my pen pal. It may take time in any case, of course, but everything that I just read about a married people and don't receive letters(I'm so sorry!) and so on makes me feel hopeless.
I'm sure of my friend has not received my letter or they are holding his in the mailroom forever. I'm from Finland, don't have 100% clean background plus I'm a journalist and I told it in the letter.
A journalist from another country.... not good...
I sent a postcard to him today and said just hello and how are you etc. I did not mention anything about has he received my letter.
Anyway, I don't think it was a good idea to send a letter in a way that prison staff will receive and sign it in the prison. This way I am even more a thorn in the flesh to them.
We are just starting our pen pal relationship, and he is my only pen pal. He was so concerned about will I get repelled by all those bad things he's done many years ago...it hurts to think that maybe he is thinking right now that I did not want to write to him anymore.
Chania

Rostonhall
Nobody gives two S**ts where the mail comes from. Trust me. Nobody steals mail or keeps mail from anyone...EVER! Nobody cares who does or doesn't get mail. There are more important things to worry about than a piece of mail. Mailroom policy is tight and the mailroom staff do a good job. This is all crazy talk.

I sense some frustration on your part. The gal was only trying to ask for help and stating her situation as she is experiencing it. And other people are trying to help her find a solution. Be a part of the solution, not the problem.
:pissed:

Hey Guy's

Just got word a few day's ago that My Tim is doing okay.
He did receive all my letters but couldnt write to me personally because he was shipped from H.U. to H.U. and didn't have his property at that time so he couldn't write.
All his writting paper and stuff was in there so he couldn't write.

But I just wanted to let you all know that i was heart warmed by your responces and it did me a lot of good knowing there are people out there who know what i was going trough...

And to Magnum I would like to say! I know that there are good guy's that are working within the prison systhem.
But there are alway's bad apples in a basket of fruit and there is nothing we as wifes, mothers, and other relatives can do about it.

The way I see it is ... the loved ones of the inmates are also depend on the guards and the prsion officials ad that is tuff.
I mean we're not locked up but by some of the guards we're treathed like we are also the scum of the earth and that isn't right.
We didn't do anything we only love the ones incarserated.

So Guy's thanks for all the suport I thank you fromt he bottom of my heart I feel a whole lot better knowing there are people who suport me and all those others.......


namaste
Gea

i hope ya'll didn't send mail to old potosi address