Snail mail clubs?
May 12, 2026
I’ve been searching online for a couple of snail mail
clubs to join, but honestly, I’m ready to give up and just start my own.
First, most of them are too damn expensive. I don’t want to spend $10 a month for a
photocopied, typed letter, a couple of stickers, and a bookmark. Oh, and maybe a postcard with “original art”. I’m NOT an artist, so that doesn’t even
appeal to me.
What I want is an interesting handwritten
letter. I DID find a couple of monthly
samples that I ordered on Etsy and I’ll do a YouTube video of them when I
receive them and I’ll let you know what I think of them.
I also restarted my account on Postcrossing (a
postcard exchange website) because, well, I enjoyed seeing all the postal
stamps from around the world and I DI make a few friends when I was doing this
last year. It’s just that international
postage is now…SIT DOWN!...$1.70 each! I
asked for someone’s address yesterday and thankfully got a man in Indiana, so
that was a regular postcard stamp which is $0.61, which seems outrageous.
Anyway, I’ve been searching on Instagram, YouTube,
Google Search, and Etsy looking for a REASONABLY PRICED monthly snail mail
subscription. They seem to range from
$8.00 a month to $11.00 upwards to $15.00.
That seems a LOT for a 79 cent stamp and some items thrown into an
envelope.
I found one gal who sends out about 500 envelopes a
month. NO THANK YOU. I would love to write to about 5 or 6
people, but that’s it. I DO write the 5
grandkids weekly and I make some handmade cards for them, I throw in some
stickers and a bookmark of two, but I hand write (or print) my letters. None of this photocopied garbage!
What do you think?
Do you have any experience with a snail mail letter club? I did get one letter a couple of years ago
from some book club and it was garbage, so I cancelled that subscription. I’m pretty picky. If I’m going to pay $6.00 upward, I want
some… QUALITY, not QUANTITY. Let me know
your thoughts. And, let me know if you
would like a handwritten letter from me.
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