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A single photograph, offset-printed on 300gsm uncoated stock, with a caption on the back that tells you where and when.
Once a month, a small brown envelope lands in your postbox. Inside: a hand-printed postcard, a letter written by an actual person with an actual pen, a strip of stickers, and a playlist to score the reading. No feed. No notification. Just paper.
We put the same care into a monthly envelope that a printer once put into a plate. Nothing here is auto-generated. Everything is chosen, printed, licked, and posted.
A single photograph, offset-printed on 300gsm uncoated stock, with a caption on the back that tells you where and when.
A one-page letter, typewritten and signed. Sometimes a confession. Sometimes an argument. Always addressed to you.
A small run of stickers each month ~ for your laptop, your camera bag, your fridge, the back of a friend's road sign.
A tracklist to score the envelope. Scan the code on the sleeve, put the kettle on, read slowly.
All plans include worldwide postage from Cape Town. Prepaid plans are paid once and we'll write you a note before the last envelope goes out. The monthly plan is billed month by month: we email you a secure payment link each month, and we never store your card.
A photograph waits to be developed. A letter waits to be read. We think there is still a market for things that are meant to be waited on ~ and delivered by the postal service, not the algorithm.
Pick monthly, six-month, or the full year. Enter the postal address that actually gets mail ~ we will double-check with you.
First Friday of every month: postcards on the press, the letter on the typewriter, stickers cut, playlist finalised, everything checked twice.
Second Friday: we walk the whole box down to the post office. International mail takes 10–21 days; local is usually inside a week.
Sit with it. Put the record on. Answer if you like ~ our postbox address is on the back of every letter.
Fill in the front, then pay securely on the next page and your first envelope is booked. Not ready yet? Join the newsletter at the bottom of the page instead.
Salt River, Cape Town. Envelopes go out on the second Friday of each month. Local delivery is usually within a week; international takes 10–21 days depending on where you are.
Yes ~ the Full Roll plan includes a gift-a-month option, so you can split the year between yourself and someone you'd like to write to. Just tell us both addresses.
Tell us, and we'll reprint and re-post. It happens rarely, but the second envelope is on us.
Every letter is handwritten by our editor and signed by hand ~ that is more or less the whole point. Sometimes it is a note; sometimes it is a proper page. Always addressed to you.
Occasionally. Send us a note in the postcard form and we'll write back if there's a fit for an upcoming issue.
Your first month is paid when you sign up. After that we email you a secure payment link each month before the envelope goes out. Pay it and your next envelope is booked; skip it and we simply pause until you're ready. We never store your card.
Monthly subscribers can pause any time. Prepaid subscribers can defer an issue ~ tell us the week before and we'll double up the next month.