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Sixteen Emails You’ll Actually Open

From painters and poets to a daily history quiz, sixteen newsletters worth the stamp. Tap one to peek inside, or sort your mail to find your stack.

By Moss & Fog4 min read
A pile of colorful vintage postage stamps on a wooden table, with a teal United States Air Mail stamp in the center
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Most inboxes are a bit of a junk drawer. Receipts, password resets, a coupon for a mattress you looked at once. But every so often something lands that’s actually worth the stamp!

So we sorted out sixteen of them, from painters and poets to a daily history quiz. Tap any stamp to see what’s inside, or hit Sort my mail, answer four quick questions, and we’ll tell you which stack is yours.

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Fog Signals stampDraw Paint Academy stampHand-Drawn For Humanity stampNiX / INK stampJason Z Guest Poetry stampThe Cool Down stampYale Climate Connections stampNomad for Less stampPassport Insights stampGonna Want Seconds stampHistoryQuizzes.com stampA Little Wiser stampWait... What?! stampThe Strategist stamp5-Bullet Friday stampThe Neuron stamp

Tap any stamp to see what’s inside. Subscribe to one and it gets postmarked.

The whole stack

First Class

First Class

Fog Signals

ArrivesSundays

Our own. Every Sunday we round up the week’s best stories from Moss & Fog, a few things from the shop, and a handful of small wonders we found around the web.

A watercolor paint palette with well-used pans of color beside loose brush sketches
Photo by Sarah Brown on Unsplash

The Studio

The Studio

Draw Paint Academy

ArrivesRegularly, from Australia

Dan Scott is a self-taught landscape painter who has been writing to his readers about painting and the art life for years. Lessons learned the hard way, and whatever is on his easel.

The Studio

Hand-Drawn For Humanity

ArrivesNow and then

Illustrated essays for overthinkers, plus cartoons. It takes life’s big questions and its very small ones (like where to look on the subway) equally seriously.

The Studio

NiX / INK

ArrivesAfter hours

Rollicking true stories, ink cartoons, and notes on gear and books. Billed as a dispatch for the un-calculated hour, which feels about right.

The Studio

Jason Z Guest Poetry

ArrivesOnce a week

Original poetry alongside reflective essays and notes on the craft. Each issue picks a theme and stays with it.

Dense evergreen trees emerging from thick grey fog on a mountain slope
Photo by Thomas Griesbeck on Unsplash

The Weather

The Weather

The Cool Down

ArrivesRegularly

Small, practical changes that are good for the planet and kind to your wallet at the same time. Smart swaps, not guilt trips.

The Weather

Yale Climate Connections

ArrivesTuesday and Friday mornings

The week’s climate news plus tips and solutions, in five minutes or less. Short enough to finish with your coffee.

An empty two-lane road running through golden grassland toward distant hills
Photo by Matteo Paganelli on Unsplash

The Road

The Road

Nomad for Less

ArrivesWhenever the fares are good

Insider tips for budget-savvy travelers. If you’ve ever booked a trip mostly because the flight was too cheap to ignore, this one’s for you.

The Road

Passport Insights

ArrivesOnce a week

Not destination roundups. It digs into what makes a place desirable, viral, controversial or out of reach, which is a much better question.

A copper cooking pot on a kitchen table with fruit and a leafy green plant
Photo by Ramiro Mendes on Unsplash

The Kitchen

The Kitchen

Gonna Want Seconds

ArrivesAround dinnertime

Easy comfort food for real life. Tried and true family dinners, cozy classics, and desserts that tend to disappear fast.

Rows of old leather-bound books behind glass in a softly lit library
Photo by Clarisse Meyer on Unsplash

The Rabbit Hole

The Rabbit Hole

HistoryQuizzes.com

ArrivesDaily

A short history quiz every day. You’ll get some wrong, and those are the ones you’ll remember.

The Rabbit Hole

A Little Wiser

ArrivesThree mornings a week

Three lessons in about three minutes. A painless way to know a little more by Friday than you did on Monday.

The Rabbit Hole

Wait… What?!

ArrivesDaily

A daily brain workout of trivia, puzzles and odd facts. It even shows up with a stack of word searches as a welcome gift.

Buckets of pink, yellow and red flowers at an outdoor market stall
Photo by Gabriella Clare Marino on Unsplash

The Shopping Bag

The Shopping Bag

The Strategist

ArrivesDaily

Useful product recommendations from a team of obsessive shoppers, plus the occasional good deal. Dangerous for anyone with a cart already open.

The Shopping Bag

5-Bullet Friday

ArrivesFridays

Tim Ferriss shares the five coolest things he found that week. Books, gadgets, tools and the occasional strange hack.

The Shopping Bag

The Neuron

ArrivesDaily, in about three minutes

New AI tools, how to actually use them, and the news that matters, kept short. Handy if you want to keep up without falling down the hole.

A row of five letterpress postage stamps for newsletters, including Fog Signals, Draw Paint Academy, The Cool Down, HistoryQuizzes.com and 5-Bullet Friday

All sixteen stamps are waiting on the site, where you can sort your mail and see which stack is yours. Open the stamp sheet.

Know one that belongs in the stack? Tell us about it and we’ll take a look.

And if you only add one, we hope it’s Fog Signals. Every Sunday we round up the week on Moss & Fog, a few things from the shop, and the small wonders we couldn’t fit anywhere else. If you like poking around, our Curiosity Corner is a good next stop.

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