Write a handwritten letter to your future self in the middle of a breakup. We'll deliver it one year later, to a version of you that probably can't imagine yet how far you'll come.
The first month after a breakup bends time. Days are longer. Nights are unrecognizable. You forget to eat or eat too much. You remember every version of the relationship all at once and can't figure out which version was real. Friends are patient, then a little less patient, then they have their own lives to live and you realize you're going to have to figure this one out on your own. There's nothing that makes the first month of a breakup not hard. But there is a thing that makes the whole year ahead easier.
You write a letter to yourself, right now, in the middle of the worst of it. You tell the version of you who will be reading it one year from now what this felt like on the inside. What you're afraid of. What you learned about yourself in the relationship that you don't want to lose just because it's ending. What you want to become while the dust is still settling. You seal it, we hold it, and on a date 365 days from now, it arrives.
Reading your own words a year later is one of the most useful things you can do to a breakup. The person opening the letter is further along than they realize. The letter reminds them, in their own handwriting, of a worse place they already stopped being in. It becomes proof of their own recovery. Breakups don't come with proof. This one does.
Three simple steps. One beautiful moment, later.
Pour your heart onto paper. Use our Letter Helper if you'd like prompts. You decide when it should be opened — 1 year or 2 years from now.
Mail your sealed letter to our PO Box. We store it in a climate-controlled, fireproof safe — untouched, unopened, waiting.
On your chosen date, we mail your original, handwritten letter with tracking. Your words arrive exactly when they're meant to.
Your letter is in safe hands
You're trusting us with something irreplaceable. Here's what we do about that.
Letters are stored in climate-controlled, fireproof safes — not filing cabinets or cardboard boxes. We treat every letter as irreplaceable, because to someone, it is.
Every letter ships with an active tracking number, so you (or the recipient) know exactly when it's on its way.
If your address changes before your delivery date, email us anytime and we'll update your file. Your letter follows you — no extra fee.
If Hold My Letter ever closes, every stored letter is immediately mailed back to the sender's return address. No exceptions.
One letter. One delivery. One beautiful moment when it returns.
Emailed on your chosen date between 6 months and 2 years out. Add physical mailing for a small fee. Available worldwide — the right choice if you're writing to (or from) outside the United States.
One-time payment
+$12 to add physical mailing (first address)
One-time payment
+$12 to add physical mailing (first address)
Physical mailing add-on: +$12 for the first address. Each additional unique address: +$2.
The original Hold My Letter experience. Handwrite your letter, seal the envelope, and mail it to our PO Box. We store it in a climate-controlled, fireproof safe until your chosen delivery date — then send it back with tracking, still sealed.
One-time payment
One-time payment
🇺🇸 Currently available for US addresses only. International shipping coming soon!
Everything you need to know, answered plainly.
It only takes 20 minutes. The moment it lands will be worth years.
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