The Complete 'No' List for Comal County Jail: Everything You Shouldn't Mail
Mail rules at Comal County Jail can feel strict, but they're much easier to follow when you have one clear "do not send" list. Use this as a quick check before you drop anything in the mailbox or place an order for delivery.
Stationery Restrictions
- ✓ Stamps
- ✓ Envelopes
- ✓ Blank paper
- ✓ Tracing paper
- ✓ Paper bags
- ✓ Cardboard
- ✓ Similar stationery items
Keep photos simple and small. Pictures must be 4x6 inches or smaller, and that size limit includes the border. Polaroids are not allowed. Photos also can't have any adhesive or other substance on the front or back. Cards have firm limits too. Musical cards are banned. So are cards showing men or women in sexually suggestive attire or poses. Anything larger than 8x11 inches won't make it through either.
Quick tip: The border counts toward the 4x6 size limit. Skip Polaroids, and avoid anything that adds adhesive or other substances to the photo surface.
Objects Clothing Personal Items
- ✓ Hard plastic objects (including credit cards, identification cards, and driver’s licenses)
- ✓ Laminated items
- ✓ Commissary items, including food, toothpaste, razors, toothbrushes, and soap
If it's something you'd normally hand someone in person (especially anything plastic, or anything that works like money or an ID), assume it won't be accepted through the mail unless the jail's rules clearly say otherwise. Stick to plain correspondence. For hygiene items and food, rely on the jail's commissary process rather than trying to mail them in.
Books, magazines, and newspapers have to arrive the right way. Comal County Jail only accepts publications shipped directly from a publisher or an established bookstore. Format matters too. Only paperback books with perfect binding are authorized. Publications sent by family or friends, or ordered through third-party sites and third-party book vendors, will be returned.
Safety restriction: Publications are unauthorized if they include instructions on how to manufacture explosives, weapons, or drugs.
- Confirm the sender is the publisher or an established bookstore. If it’s coming from a friend, family member, or a third-party vendor, it is not allowed.
- Choose the correct book format. Send only paperback books with perfect binding.
- Screen for prohibited “how-to” content. Do not send anything that provides instructions to manufacture explosives, weapons, or drugs.
Comal County Jail rejects any gang-related material. If your mail includes gang-related literature, pictures, lyrics, drawings, or signs and gestures that could be construed as gang-related, it will be turned away.
Trying to send contraband into Comal County Jail, or seriously violating the correspondence rules, can lead to more than just a rejected item. The Jail Administrator (or designee) can ban you from any further correspondence with that specific inmate by placing you on the inmate's Negative Mailing List.
Warning: A serious mail violation can get you blocked from writing that inmate entirely. If you're not sure an item is allowed, don't send it.
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