Letter mailed to mission returned due to “standards”?
My sister wrote a letter to a Missionary who served in Albania.
She used some common stationary and didn’t include anything else in the envelope besides the letter itself.
It was returned from the mission home with a list of standards letters are accepted by including:
The letter should not contain money, a gift card or credit card. It could not be written on cardstock…
The letter was returned as it had violated the standards…even though it was unopened.
I have never heard or seen this before. I know families and supporters are generally discouraged to send money but I have never seen any kind of standards whereby physical mail could be rejected.
Has anyone else seen or experienced this? Any idea why?