Magazine Subscription as a Christmas gift. Can you delay when it starts?

Yes you can. I did that for my mum with one of her crafty card making magazines. However, when you subcribed you got a couple of free gifts and they turned up at mum's house before Christmas and she had no idea why she had them and was going to send them back so I had to tell her why she had got them!

Yes - I certainly have with Ideal Home for MIL - they have to send a card in to start it I think.

Thanks ladies. So if I order it today, what should I expect to arrive exactly? Not the mags themselves, but a card that enablse H to register it when he wants?

It varies from company to company. My H has a subscription to a football mag and to start that he had to send a card off. My mum's on the other hand I just did over the phone and jsut gave a start date I wanted.

Check when the subscription period starts in any case, because a lot of them can take 6 weeks or more to kick in anyway.

Depends on where you get it from. Some places send some sort of voucher which the recipient has to activate, others ask when you want it to start, and yet others say expect your first issue in 6-8 weeks without saying which issue that will be.