His incoming and outgoing letters are screened by prison officials.
Further, if the mailbox rule were maintained, only one person will pick up an outgoing letter placed in the mailbox.
Andy is nearly fired after, due to drowsiness, he mixes up two outgoing letters in the office mail.
"We are not allowed telephone communications with our friends and families," replied Hilda, "only outgoing letters, which are heavily censored."
No expense of $1,000 or more could be paid without his approval, and for a time he had to approve every outgoing letter.
The post office has an annual average of 15,000 letters incoming and 10,000 letters outgoing.
That had enabled him to open outgoing letters, read them, and type new envelopes for them.
It didn't take a genius to figure out she was going to put some outgoing letters in her mailbox.
The village has a post office to deliver incoming or outgoing letters and packages.
The swimmers also brought tins with outgoing letters to shipside.