Gift The Velorution Post

A thick envelope with their name on it, hand-packed and hand-sealed. Inside: the 16-page mini magazine, with the stories, the style guide, the hacks and the crossword in it, a personal letter, the Velorution Insider one-pager, that month's collectable trading card, a postcard and a sticker. Occasionally something extra I couldn't resist adding.

It is not a box of products and it is not a catalogue. Nothing in it is trying to sell them anything.

Theirs. Whatever delivery address you enter is where every envelope goes, so put their name and address in rather than your own.

If you'd rather the first one came to you so you can hand it over in person, use your address and email me after ordering — I'll switch it to theirs from the second edition.

One payment, taken when you order. There's nothing else to pay and nothing taken later, and worldwide postage is included in all three.

• £36.00 3 months
• £66.00 6 months
• £120.00 12 months

No — and that's the main reason to give the gift version rather than a personal subscription. It runs for exactly the number of months you paid for and then stops.

Whoever you give it to is never asked for card details and never gets an unexpected charge. There's nothing for them to cancel.

Every edition posts on the 10th of the month. Order before the 10th and theirs starts that month; order after it and it starts the following month.

UK and EU addresses usually get it within 3–5 working days of dispatch. Everywhere else, allow one to two weeks.

Anywhere in the world. There's no country I won't post to, no international surcharge, and postage is always included — whether they're in Manchester, Melbourne or Montevideo.

Yes, and I'd recommend it — otherwise a mystery envelope from Spain lands and nobody knows why. Email me after ordering with a line or two and I'll put it in with the first edition.

Roughly, not exactly — everything posts on the 10th, so I can't land it on a particular date. What I can do is choose which month it starts: email me after ordering and tell me which one, and I'll hold it until then.

If you need something in their hands on the day itself, order it to your own address and hand the first envelope over yourself.

Yes. Order it to your own address, then email me theirs whenever you have it and I'll start the gift from the next 10th.

Email me before you order and I'll check. If they do, the sensible thing is to add your gift on to the end of what they're already paying for — get in touch and I'll sort it rather than have them receive two of everything.

A one-page confidential report that comes with every edition, showing the genuine numbers behind this business as I rebuild it. Revenue, costs, subscriber count, what I tried that worked and what quietly didn't.

Most businesses only publish the good months. This publishes all of them. If you're buying this for someone building something themselves, it's probably the most useful thing in the envelope.

Post occasionally goes astray — it's the nature of physical mail. If one hasn't arrived within the expected window, tell me and I'll resend it or refund you.

Worth double-checking the delivery address on your order confirmation first, as that's the most common culprit.

Yes — buy another gift term whenever you like, or they can take out a rolling £12-a-month subscription themselves. Nothing happens automatically either way.

I do. My name's Pete and I run Velorution on my own, out of a spare room. I write it, design it, print most of it, pack every envelope by hand and take them to the post office on my bike.

That's why the letter is signed rather than printed, and why the Insider exists.

Tell me and I'll refund the first envelope. No questions, no form to fill in, and they can keep what's been sent.