The parcel
How it works
What arrives, when it arrives, how to join and how to stop.
What arrives
Every month, a parcel of six pieces of paper from one railway journey: an A4 journey print, a ticket, a route chart, an illustrated story booklet, a railway document and a post card, wrapped in kraft, tied, wax sealed and labelled. It goes in a plain C4 envelope as a large letter, so it fits through a standard letterbox.
Each journey is told over three parcels, by three different people who were part of it. The print, the document and the post card change every month, and some of them carry clues to the next chapter. The journey and the history are real; the people who tell it are ours, and every piece is marked as a replica.
See the six pieces in the first parcel, listed as they will be printed.
When
We close the list on the 25th of each month and post in the first days of the next, so every parcel arrives in the first week of the month. If a parcel goes missing, tell us and we’ll send another.
How to join
One membership, £14.99 a month including UK postage, paid by card when you join and then on the 23rd of each month for the next parcel. Your first parcel is the next one we post: we close each month’s list on the 25th, so joining before then means the following month’s parcel, and joining after it means the one after that. The first journey begins in November 2026. If you join part way through a journey, your first parcel is the next part. Each part is told by a different person on the same train, so it stands up on its own.
When you pay, and when it arrives
If you join today
- When you join£14.99 for your first parcel.
- Dec 2026Your first parcel is posted in the first week of December 2026: Kinnaber, Part Two.
- From 23 DecThen £14.99 on the 23rd of each month, starting on 23 December 2026, for the next month’s parcel.
You pay once today, and nothing again until 23 December 2026, after your first parcel has been posted. We take payment on the 23rd, two days before the list closes, so there is time to sort out a card problem before anything goes in the post. These dates apply if you join by 25 November 2026.
£14.99 a month, or £44.97 for three months or £164.89 for twelve, paid once. Free UK delivery: every price includes postage. Payment is by card through Stripe. Cancel a monthly membership from your account at any time.
How to stop, pause or change
Sign in to your account. You can pause for up to three months a year, change your address, or cancel, all online, all from your account page, without emailing anyone. Cancelling stops the next payment and the next parcel; you keep everything you’ve received. You can also cancel within 14 days of your first parcel arriving and have that month refunded, by posting the parcel and its contents back to us at your own cost. The cancellation page sets out how.