mail4kids Brings Monthly Fun to Your Mailbox

“Is there any mail for me?”

Sounds familiar, huh? As we all know, kids love getting mail — but even when you add up the Highlights subscriptions, birthday cards and infrequent letters from relatives, kids’ actual mail tends to be limited to a handful of goodies per year. (And, no, e-mail doesn’t count.)

Enter mail4kids. Founded by mom-trepreneur Sherri-Lee Pressman after watching her 3-year-old go through one too many disappointments at the mailbox, the Canadian company offers a subscription-based service that delivers 12 months’ worth of fun direct to your little ones.

Front (left) and back of a typical mail4kids card.

Sign up for the $50 basic service ($40 in Canada; $60 internationally), and each month for a year, you get an educationally themed collector’s card in the mail. Each mailing also comes with an activity sheet that plays off the card’s theme — from insects (as pictured above) to food, travel, animals and sports. Kids also get special crafts mailed on their birthday and on select holidays, and if you’re buying mail4kids as a gift, you can customize your first delivery with a personal message.

Of course, unlike junk mail, collectible cards tend to add up quickly. For $25 more, mail4kids also offers a deluxe starter kit, which includes four collectible starter cards; a personalized storage box; index cards to help with categorizing your collection; and one of several fun thank-you gifts (see the photo at the top of this page for some examples).

Visit mail4kids for more info and details on how to subscribe, and keep an eye out: According to Pressman, the company is also launching a similar service to provide kids with monthly craft projects.

UPDATE: We’d incorrectly posted that mail4kids has a weekly option, but the service is, in fact, monthly. Our apologies — we’ve since corrected the error.