Two clicks: the manage link in any email we send, then confirm. Or email hello@wildbirdpost.com and a human cancels it for you the same day. Your subscription runs to the end of the month you’ve paid for and stops.
No. Month to month, always. Gift subscriptions can be fixed length (3, 6 or 12 months) so they end tidily without anyone having to remember.
Your price is locked while your subscription stays active. If postage costs ever force a change for new members, existing members keep the rate they joined at.
Letter No. 0, the complete sample letter, by email straight away. Then one email with the posting date once Letter No. 1 is scheduled, and first chance to subscribe before ordering opens publicly. The waitlist is free and you can leave it anytime.
The first Tuesday of every month, from a post office in Co. Louth, Ireland, through An Post.
Ireland: 1 to 2 days. UK: 3 to 5. US and Canada: typically 7 to 12. Australia and elsewhere: up to 3 weeks. Letters travel as stamped international post, which is half the charm and occasionally half the speed.
We post it again, free, no interrogation. One email is all it takes.
No. Letters and small printed matter at these values travel as ordinary international post. There is nothing to pay on arrival.
Almost certainly. An Post reaches everywhere the postal union does. If you can receive a birthday card, you can receive Wild Bird Post.
Maebh Collins. Longhand first, then set in type. Four pages, one bird, its story, and a few lines from a famous poem the bird earned along the way.
Both. Each bird has its own story to tell, and the letters follow the birds through the season on both sides of the Atlantic. Letter No. 0 is about the cardinal; you can read it in full on The Letters page before deciding.
Letter + Print includes a 5x7, the most common small frame size in any shop. The Collector tier includes an 8x10, also standard. Both are printed edge to edge on 250gsm archival matte stock, no borders.
A small paper keepsake, different every month and only revealed when the envelope opens. One month a collectible postcard, another a pocket field guide to the bird, another a bookmark with a line of verse or a sheet of our own bird post stamps. Always flat, always paper, never announced in advance. It is part of the surprise.
It’s for people who love watching birds, not ticking lists. If you know your feeder’s regulars by heart but couldn’t care less about subspecies codes, you are exactly who the letters are written for. Serious birders are welcome too; they just have to tolerate the folklore.
No. The paper is the product. The nearest thing is Letter No. 0, the free sample we email when you join the waitlist.
Yes, and it’s rather good at being one. You choose the tier and length, we print your personal note on a card inside the first envelope, and the letters carry on arriving month after month. Details on the gift page.
Yes. After the first letter arrives we can move the reins to whoever you like, or leave them with you.
Still wondering about something? Email hello@wildbirdpost.com. A person answers, usually within a day.
Join the flock of bird lovers and letter writers. Letter No. 0, the complete sample letter, arrives free by email the moment you do.