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How to subscribe

1. Find the email signup form on this site, including the page sidebar and article pages.
2. Enter an email address you regularly use and select “Subscribe free.”
3. When the form reports success, check your inbox for the confirmation email. The subscription becomes active only after you click the confirmation link.
4. After confirming, check the inbox for the welcome email, which usually arrives within a few minutes.
5. Each new English Post will arrive in full at that address.

After you submit

The signup form shows that the submission was received and stays in place. That message does not mean the subscription is active yet; it becomes active after you click the confirmation link in the email. This browser saves the subscription’s numeric ID, the last check time, and whether it is pending or confirmed — not your email address — so it can recognize a record from an earlier visit. Returning visitors see a confirmed or pending state, rechecked when it may be out of date, and a recognized record cannot be submitted again from this browser. Use “Refresh status” or “Check confirmation status” to check again. If a check fails temporarily, the saved record stays and you can retry. “Use another email” clears this browser’s saved record and the current form, but it does not unsubscribe on the server. If browser storage is unavailable or blocked, nothing persists across reloads or in other browsers, and the record lasts only for the current visit.

If the welcome email does not arrive

Welcome emails usually take only a few minutes. Check the following:

1. Spam, junk, or Promotions folders.
2. The submitted address for spelling errors.
3. Whether the email provider blocks unfamiliar senders.
4. Wait a few minutes, then refresh the inbox.

When the message appears, mark its sender as trusted to reduce future filtering.

If the address was entered incorrectly, use “Use another email” in the form to clear it and submit a different address. This does not cancel the existing subscription. Do not repeatedly submit the same address; another submission will not send another welcome email. If the address is correct but the welcome email still does not arrive, contact contact@grant-dai.com.

How to unsubscribe

Every newsletter includes an unsubscribe link near its footer:

1. Open any Grant Dai newsletter.
2. Scroll to the bottom.
3. Select “Unsubscribe” or the subscription-preferences link.
4. If a confirmation page opens, follow its instructions to finish.

After unsubscribing, the system stops sending the newsletter to that address. This does not affect website access, RSS subscriptions, or social follows. To return later, submit the same address through the signup form again.

Delivery and privacy

• Each new English Post sends one complete email.
• The email contains the publication-time version. Open the web version for later corrections and revisions.
• Notes do not send individual emails. A separate Notes roundup may be added later.
• Email addresses are used for newsletter delivery, subscription management, and necessary service notices.
• No spam and no sale of email addresses.
• See the Privacy Policy for full data-handling details.

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