Aunty Mikes' Passport Club vs LettersLetter

Where they differ

Both are letters, stickers and postcards clubs. Past that they pull apart: Aunty Mikes' Passport Club also covers travel and music, while LettersLetter adds art & prints and activities.

Aunty Mikes' Passport Club is the cheaper of the two — £4.99/mo against $11.99/mo, roughly 47% less on a monthly basis. Whether that gap means anything depends on what turns up: the dearer club is not automatically sending more, and on a gift the up-front total matters more than the monthly figure.

Shipping is the one that rules a club out rather than in: Aunty Mikes' Passport Club ships to Worldwide, LettersLetter to US and 23 other countries.

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.

LettersLetter

One envelope a month with an illustrated short story, a collectible postcard, a coloring page, a character sticker and a small surprise such as a mini game. The envelope is addressed to the child by name. Subscribe by the 15th to start in the same cycle.

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.