I'm Alan Alda and this episode of Ear Hustle may contain some language that's inappropriate for some people.

So discretion is advised, but do listen.

There's a lone man struggling to walk across the pros and tundra.

Each step is labor intensive. The wind, it's whipping.

Lightning.

In a world where carer packages were sent directly from home and everyone had a knife,

even if it meant hiding it in their butts.

Porn.

It was sent through the mail.

The mail.

You are now tuning the San Quint's Ear Hustle from PRX's Radio Topia.

I'm Rasan, New York Thomas, a resident of San Quint State Prison in California,

serving a life sentence for second degree murder.

I'm Nigel Poor. I've been working here with the guys at San Quentin for about eight years now.

And together we're going to take you inside and back out post incarceration.

On this episode we're staying inside the walls of San Quint and we're talking about something near to my heart.

And something that gets talked about on Ear Hustle a lot.

So we figured it deserved its own episode.

We're going to hear some stories about mail.

Letters.

Packages.

Anything the post might deliver.

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