Dear MIM,
The mail guard sent me a note saying they were stealing "internet pages" I was mailed or could send them "home" or "to sender." They deliberately sent the package these pages came in to the wrong building and delivered it with my other mail eight days later. Today I found it was from you and that they prohibit "internet pages," but I learned nothing of these pages' content. The delay was to help burn up 15 days, after which protest is ruled waived. It also seeks to prevent time enough for copying the [rejection] notice, which must be attached to the grievance and often vanishes while in their hands, nullifying the grievance. Mail won't go out again until Monday. I'll begin the grievance procedure then, because Friday they had no g-forms available.
Filing a grievance forces the guards to forego destroying the mail until after the final word is reached on the grievance. The most likely result is I'll send your package out somewhere and have someone write me a description of its contents.
Sorry for the trouble. I have not had any net pages stolen this waybefore. Hope we can win this, since it's free speech, something Americans think is allowed. Take care.
In struggle,
-- an Oklahoma prisoner 3 October, 2003
MIM adds: The offending "internet pages" in this case were news articles from MIM's website, some on the current situation in Nepal and some on Peru.