Does an Inmate Pay to Receive Letters or Photos?

Your fiancé does not need any money on his books to receive what you sent. There is no charge to the inmate for incoming mail.

When you send a letter or photos through InmateAid, you pay for the service on your end. That covers the printing, any attachments, and the postage to get it to the facility. Once it arrives, it goes through the mail room the same way any other piece of mail does, staff inspects it, and then it gets delivered to your fiancé at mail call. Nothing is deducted from his commissary account and he does not need a funded account of any kind to receive it.

The only thing that requires money on his books is outgoing communication, if he wants to write back and needs to purchase stamps, or if he is making phone calls through the facility's phone system. Receiving mail from the outside costs him nothing.

So to answer your question directly: you paid on your end, the letter is on its way, and he will receive it without any additional steps required from either of you.