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You can snailmail them cash along with a random token you get from their website/account management page, and that gets credited to your account.

https://mullvad.net/en/pricing/

Every single piece of postal mail is scanned front/back. If you've signed up for the USPS's delivery notification stuff for your mailbox, that's where the scanned "previews" come from. And it's notable how often those previews show a pretty good representation of what's inside, even without messing with the preview image in an image editor to play with the levels/contrast/etc.

So yeah, if you'd like to hand the feds evidence you're using a VPN, go right ahead, mail Mullvad cash?

I would assume the person mailing them cash is not sending it from their mailbox on their property, but instead a public access mailbox in a town or city.

If you’re worried about being actively followed by the feds and they’re tracking you drop that letter, you have much, much more to worry about than your VPN usage.

They have a variety of crypto options. You can also mail money directly to their office and if you are in Sweden you can buy physical vouchers in-store at several places (which can be paid in cash.)

(Just a happy customer.)

Giftcards or crypto. You could even mail cash to pay for it.