Sending Money to FCI Fairton

MoneyGram

• Receive code: 7932
• Company: Federal Bureau of Prisons, Washington, DC
• Account: 8-digit register number plus last name, for example 12345678DOE
• Beneficiary: the person’s full committed name

Western Union

• Code City: FBOP, DC
• Account and Attention line as above

By Mail

Federal Bureau of Prisons
[Committed Name]
[Register Number]
Post Office Box 474701
Des Moines, Iowa 50947-0001

Money orders, U.S. government checks, and cashier’s or certified checks. No personal checks or cash. Some checks are held 15 days.

Never to Fairton

Do not mail money to P.O. Box 420.

What the Des Moines Lockbox Cannot Carry

The Des Moines lockbox takes money orders and checks, not letters or pictures. Pigeonly prints the ones you send from your phone and mails them to Fairton’s own P.O. Box 420, no printer or stamps needed.