Aunty Mikes' Passport Club vs Letters From Francis

Where they differ

Both are letters and stickers clubs. Past that they pull apart: Aunty Mikes' Passport Club also covers travel, postcards and music, while Letters From Francis adds nature.

On price there is effectively nothing in it — £4.99/mo against $7/mo plus postage, which works out within a dollar a month of each other. Price is not the deciding factor here.

Shipping is the one that rules a club out rather than in: Aunty Mikes' Passport Club ships to Worldwide, Letters From Francis to Not stated.

Aunty Mikes' Passport Club addresses the post to the child by name; Letters From Francis does not. That sounds minor and it is the detail people mention most often — the envelope being visibly theirs is most of the appeal for a younger child.

What each one sends

Aunty Mikes' Passport Club

Each month covers one country: a dispatch newsletter, an authentic recipe card, a color-in postcard, a collectible vinyl-record-style card with a QR code linking to music, and a custom sticker sheet. Month one adds a passport booklet for collecting stamps. The envelope is addressed to the child, and the postcard is meant to be written on and mailed to a relative.

Letters From Francis

A hand-illustrated letter from a goat named Francis, who writes about animal friends he meets around the world, in a brightly colored envelope. Each letter includes a die-cut collectible animal sticker. Letters are billed and mailed around the 10th to 15th.

Which one to pick

We are not going to pretend there is a winner here — they are close enough to be on the same shortlist, which is why this page exists. What we would say is that the choice usually turns on the household rather than the club: how much adult time there is, whether the child reads independently yet, and whether you want post that asks something of them or post that simply arrives.

Read the full listings before deciding, and follow through to each club's own site — prices, terms and gift options are theirs to change and ours only to record.