Mail worth waiting for

Mail Club List is a directory of people who send beautiful things through the post. Artists mailing original paintings. Printers running two-colour risographs out of a garage. A man in Leipzig who once posted a brick. An illustrator in Tokyo who has drawn the same nine cats every month for six years.

These clubs are genuinely hard to find. They surface on Instagram for a week, get twelve subscribers, and disappear back into someone’s feed. There is no shelf you can browse. This is an attempt at that shelf.

How it works

Every listing is free. Creators can claim their listing and take it over — edit the details, upload photographs of their mail, and post one update a month. That last limit is deliberate: a club can publish exactly one update per calendar month, enforced by the database rather than by good manners. It is what keeps the updates page worth reading.

We take no commission and handle no payments. When you press subscribe, you go to the creator’s own site and pay them directly. That is the whole business model as it stands: be the best record of mail clubs on the internet first, and work out the rest later.

About the imagery

Creator photography belongs to creators. Listings added by us start with generated placeholder artwork — the paper-and-postmark illustrations you see across the site — rather than images lifted from someone’s shop. When a creator claims their listing they can replace it with photographs of their actual mail.

If a listing uses your work without permission, tell us and we will take it down. You do not need an account, and we act first and ask afterwards.

About the demo data

The clubs currently listed are fictional. Every creator, price, location and shipping term is invented, and the mail photographs are generated illustrations. Publishing real businesses’ prices and terms that nobody had verified would be worse than showing nothing.

Adding a club

Suggest one and a person reads it. Nothing is published automatically — we check the club is real, still running, and that the details are right before it appears.