Everything people ask, answered plainly

Yes. Choose $24 monthly, $135 for six months or $240 for twelve months, then pay through secure Stripe checkout. All prices are US dollars and include postage to the US, Canada and Europe.

Read Letter No. 0 on the website, free, with its plate and poem. No signup or purchase is needed to read it.

No. No limit, no place numbers, no roll to get your name on and no clock running down. One product at one price, whether you join today or in a month.

Your correspondence starts with Letter One and is posted on the first Tuesday of the month. Postal travel time varies by destination. Contact us about the next dispatch if timing matters.

We use your checkout email to identify your order and handle subscription enquiries. Payment and address information is processed by Stripe. See the privacy page for details.

$24 monthly, $135 prepaid for six months, or $240 prepaid for twelve months. The prepaid plans work out at $22.50 and $20 per month respectively. Prices are in US dollars, with postage and applicable checkout tax included.

No. Everyone receives the same five paper pieces. Choose monthly payments or a prepaid six- or twelve-month run.

Email hello@wildbirdpost.com from your purchase email to pause or cancel monthly billing before your next charge. We confirm the effective date. Prepaid plans do not renew. Your statutory cancellation and refund rights are described in our terms.

The amount and payment schedule are shown before you pay. Your prepaid order is paid in full; there is no automatic renewal.

The twelve-letter story ends. Monthly billing is set to stop after twelve months, and prepaid plans end after the number of letters purchased.

The first Tuesday of every month, through An Post, from Co. Louth in Ireland.

It travels as ordinary international letter post, and we will not promise you a date we do not control. Once there are real posting figures rather than estimates, they go on this page.

The US, Canada and Europe, with postage included in the price rather than added at the end.

Postage and applicable checkout tax are included. Any import charges imposed by your destination country are separate and are not collected by Wild Bird Post. Check local rules before ordering.

Email hello@wildbirdpost.com with your purchase email and the missing month. We will check the address and dispatch, then arrange a replacement or refund where appropriate. Your statutory rights are unaffected.

Maebh Collins, from Co. Louth, in Josiah's voice. Longhand first, then set in type, with the sketches and the weather notes in the margins.

No. Josiah Rook and Clara Vandegrift are invented. The birds, the road, the year and the events around them are real, and where a letter leans on history it says where that came from.

Five things: the letter, a fine-art bird plate, a poem card, a field note, and one paper keepsake that changes every month. All of it paper, all of it letter-sized.

A different small paper thing each month, never announced in advance. The kind of thing it might be: a bird-of-the-month postcard, a bookmark with a line of verse, a plantable seed-paper card. It is a surprise on purpose, so there is no published schedule.

A fine-art bird plate in the Audubon tradition, printed edge to edge on archival paper. No border and no mat, because a bird plate with a white margin around it looks like a photocopy.

Wait until your plate arrives before buying a frame so you can measure it and choose your preferred mount. We do not currently state an exact print dimension.

Twelve birds, one a month. Which bird carries each month stays sealed until that letter is in the post, so nobody reads an ending early. Month one is the Eastern Bluebird. Letter No. 0, the free one, is the Northern Cardinal.

It is for people who love watching birds, not ticking lists. If you know your feeder's regulars by heart and could not care less about subspecies codes, these letters were written for you. Serious birders are welcome; they just have to tolerate the folklore.

American. Josiah's journey runs through 1830s America, so the twelve are American birds. The letters are posted from Ireland, which is a postal fact rather than a subject.

No. The paper is the product. The nearest thing is Letter No. 0, which is on the site in full, free.

Yes. Choose six or twelve months, use your email for the purchase, and enter the recipient name and shipping address at checkout.

No. A fixed run ends when it ends. Nobody has to remember to cancel anything.

The prepaid checkout has an optional gift-note field. Add your message there.

A gift does not renew or transfer billing automatically. Contact hello@wildbirdpost.com to discuss continuing the correspondence without repeating letters.