Christmas-advent calender

[annelie]

Hi all,
I am doing an Advent calender for my friend on Death Row in TX ...I put a little something in 25 envelopes to open each day till christmas... now I wonder if the mailroom will proberly open the sealed envelopes to see whats inside....what do you think? shall I leave them ratehr open?
as I know my friend he would definitely sneak inside each envelope before the day said :-)
anyway, thanks for your advice....

[Cloudy]

Last year the mailroom in TX handled the Christmas mail good I guess. I sent my pal a card with a little Christmas stocking glued in it. I knew they would not accept it but I tried. Wrote a little note to the officers asking, If my friend isn't allowed to keep the sock could you please take it out and give him the card? And have a merry X-mas!

Normally they would send the entire letter back, as they did before. (tried it before)
But now they took the sock out and gave my friend the card, undamaged. I guess they do have a little more respect during the holidays.

I would still close them, or else things might get lost on the way to the US

[mammastalkin]

The mail room will open them--they have to search for contaband. It sounds like a nice idea though.

[annelie]

thank you for your answers...i will send all 25 envelopes at once and leave the envelopes open so they can check the inside....i ll have to trust my friend he wont cheat by opening all at once :-)
thank you again!

[Indokiss]

I know it's too late to answer but perhaps, it can help for other things. I have made my calendar only with paper. I hope you will understand because I don't know how to explain that. I cut a little part to do a notch where I insert the opposite side of the page. Like that you can't see the inside, it is easy to open and no need to use an envelope. I do cards like that too when I don't want my friend to see the inside. But... as you, not sure that he's waiting the good day to open...
I can try to show you if you are interested.