Censored Mail

Censored Mail. . The few letters that we did receive were inked out in black. And some ... had holes, I think they cut it out with razors so you had a holey letter. Marion Tsutakawa Kanemoto , The camp's internee-run post office stood here. Hunt Post Office was a branch of the Twin Falls U.S. Post Office. Mail was the internees' main link with the outside world - with family members in Japan, other camps, or in locations outside the exclusion zones. It was also how they held onto their homes and businesses in the exclusion zones. They had mortgages to pay, bank accounts to maintain, and businesses to run. , However, mail was subject to censorship by the U.S. Army and the Office of Censorship - set up when the war started. Censors often read international and domestic mail, and blocked out or cut out parts of letters that the government thought were sensitive or inflammatory. Censorship significantly delayed mail deliveries and invaded privacy.