Paying for a year

starts on your next bill date, and then nothing until the same date next year. Twelve issues for what eleven cost you monthly.

The issue you’ve already paid for is already paid for and isn’t charged again. Nothing else changes — same format, same swap, same address.

If you cancel part way through, the year you’ve paid for runs to the end of it. No part refund, and no part month.

Switch to yearly Stay monthly

Joining the letter swap

This is the part that isn’t just a price. From the next issue one other member gets your name and address every month so he can write to you, and you get an envelope pointed at somebody else.

From your next bill date you pay $17.69 a month instead of $12.69.

From your next bill date you pay $194.69 a year instead of $139.69.

Move me up Leave it

Moving up to the Don

You’re already in the swap, so nothing changes about your address or who writes to you. What’s new is that every month you pay for one Male Snail to be upgraded into the Mafia. You’re never told who.

From your next bill date you pay $22.69 a month instead of $17.69.

From your next bill date you pay $249.69 a year instead of $194.69.

Move me up Leave it

Extending ’s

This carries on where the current gift stops as a subscription. He sees nothing change.

You pick the format and pay on the next page, the same as sending any gift — set it to start the month the current one runs out.

Set it up → Leave it

Cancelling ’s

You’ve paid to , so the envelopes run to . Nothing is charged after that.

Stop it renewing Keep it going

Are you sure?

Yes, stop it Never mind

Starting again

today, and on that date every month after. Your first envelope is this month’s issue if it’s before the 15th, and next month’s if it isn’t — either way it posts in the last week of that month.

It’s a new subscription rather than the old one waking up, so nothing is backdated and nothing is owed for the months you were away.

Going to , unless you change it first.

Start again Not now

Joining for yourself

You’ve been buying these for other people. This one comes to you.

You pick the format and pay on the next page, the same join as anyone else — it’s where the letter-swap agreement is asked and settled.

Join for yourself → Not now

Starting ’s again

His last envelope was . This is a new subscription rather than the old one waking up, so nothing is backdated and nothing is owed for the months in between.

You pick the format and pay on the next page, the same as sending any gift.

Send it again → Not now