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10.23 INTERNEE CORRESPONDENCE AND RELIEF SHIPMENTSInternees may send and receive mail and relief shipments, subject to securityrequirements. In addition, internees benefit from certain postage exemptions.10.23.1 Internment, Health, or Transfer Card. As soon as he or she is interned, or at thelatest not more than one week after his or her arrival in a place of internment, and likewise incases of sickness or transfer to another place of internment or to a hospital, every internee shallbe enabled to send direct to his or her family, on the one hand, and to the Central InformationAgency for protected persons, on the other, an internment card that is similar, if possible, to themodel annexed to the GC (GC Annex III.I), informing his or her relatives of his or her detention,address, and state of health. 365These cards shall be forwarded as rapidly as possible and may not be delayed in anyway. 36610.23.2 Internees’ Correspondence Rights and Quota. Internees shall be allowed to sendand receive letters and cards. 36710.23.2.1 Internee Correspondence Quota. If the Detaining Power deems itnecessary to limit the number of letters and cards sent by each internee, this number shall not befewer than two letters and four cards monthly; these letters and cards shall be drawn up so as toconform as closely as possible to the models annexed to the GC (GC Annexes III.II & III.III). 368If limitations must be placed on the correspondence addressed to internees, they may beordered only by the Power to which such internees owe allegiance, possibly at the request of theDetaining Power. 369 If the Detaining Power can censor and transport more than the minimumstated, in a reasonable time-frame, it should permit more correspondence. 370365 GC art. 106 (“As soon as he is interned, or at the latest not more than one week after his arrival in a place ofinternment, and likewise in cases of sickness or transfer to another place of internment or to a hospital, everyinternee shall be enabled to send direct to his family, on the one hand, and to the Central Agency provided for byArticle 140, on the other, an internment card similar, if possible, to the model annexed to the present Convention,informing his relatives of his detention, address and state of health.”).366 GC art. 106 (“The said cards shall be forwarded as rapidly as possible and may not be delayed in any way.”).367 GC art. 107 (“Internees shall be allowed to send and receive letters and cards.”).368 GC art. 107 (“If the Detaining Power deems it necessary to limit the number of letters and cards sent by eachinternee, the said number shall not be less than two letters and four cards monthly; these shall be drawn up so as toconform as closely as possible to the models annexed to the present Convention.”).369 GC art. 107 (“If limitations must be placed on the correspondence addressed to internees, they may be orderedonly by the Power to which such internees owe allegiance, possibly at the request of the Detaining Power.”).370 See GC COMMENTARY 449 (“The minimum of two letters and four cards per month laid down by the Conventionseems to be best suited to the possibilities of rapid censorship. This is the minimum which, after representations bythe International Committee of the Red Cross, most of the belligerents had accepted from December 1940 onwards.It remained the same until the end of hostilities. The results of this experience are embodied in the Convention, butit goes without saying that these figures represent only a minimum and that if it can be done without overtaxing thenormal capacity of the postal service they can be exceeded.”).696