Smart Mailbox-nothing in it

Forgive me my obvious ignorence (since mot people seem way beyond this) but I cannot get a smart mailbox to work.
Nothing from my Inbox moves to my new Smart Mailbox.
For example: I create a new Smart Mailbox. I set up rules as follows: if from contains Amazon; if From contains Paypal; if date is older than 1 month. If I select ANY, then eveything from my inbox within 1 month goes into it. If I select ALL nothing goes in.
I keep playing with this but am getting nowhere. I'm obviously overlooking something. But what?
Thanks for any help.

Hi,
That second character is actually an "a"
I have a Paypal account and as a consequence have emails from them
I tried setting up a Smart Mailbox for the title "paypal"
Using the All or Any options both seemed to show me the same emails.
I used the "Entire Message"option and listed "paypal" as the "Contains" item.
This did pick up few emails I was not expecting:-
1 where someone's email name actually contained "paypal" as part of the name
A few where people had spoken of "paypal" in the email as a side issue or in relation to something else.
These do seem to be the emails I have already kept and Saved rather than those in the In Box (I have not had one from paypal recently)
It is picking up ones stored on my Mac as well as ones I have "Moved" to folders on my IMAP account to store Off site.
I tested with a subject I do have in both my current In Box as well as stored previous emails and it picked up both sorts.
In this second test the oldest email it picked up was one from 2005
I think I am following the way you say you set yours up and I cannot see what the difference is.
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