Yeah, I'm actually surprised electronic's not more common, but it seems at least for the most famous of the SF magazines, it's still mail only. And you'd think for a SF magazine at least, they'd go electronic first! ;)

Actually, I wonder if maybe it might not be sort of a deliberate speed bump - they do it via mail because if you can do it online they'll get so many more submissions (and just by averages, most of them will be unpublishable), so they make you put a little bit of effort into the process.

In any event, I know I can always print elsewhere, but if I went that route it'd always be one more thing I put off doing. Two or more more things, technically, since I would procrastinate on going to a place to print it, on going to the post office to get stamps/envelopes, and then on the final going out to the mailbox. I procrastinated enough on the e-sub and I didn't even have to get dressed for that (though I was anyway). ;) So my plan now is to try the e-sub places first, and, if I get published, use part of it to save money towards a printer of my own to go for the other ones, and, ideally, the confidence from early sales will help me fight the procrastination urges in the other steps.