Write a handwritten or digital letter to your mom this Mother's Day. We'll deliver it on next year's Mother's Day — so the most meaningful gift of the year keeps landing year after year.
Mother's Day is famously the one day a year we all try to say what our moms have meant to us, and just as famously, it's the day we don't quite pull it off. The flowers go in a vase. The card gets read once and tucked somewhere. Brunch ends. By Tuesday, the whole weekend feels like it happened to someone else. Your mom, who has kept every crayon drawing you ever made, walks away from another Mother's Day with another thing that will fade. That's not really her fault, or yours. It's just what the day is when the gifts are the kind that don't last.
A letter is the gift that doesn't fade. You sit down this Mother's Day — or the days around it, while she's still on your mind — and you write her something real. Not a card, not a text, not an Instagram post. A full, unhurried letter. The specific memories you hope she hasn't forgotten. The way you catch yourself using her phrases, doing her things. What you understand now that you didn't when you were growing up. Then you mail it in (handwritten) or submit it here (digital), and one year later — on the next Mother's Day morning — it arrives in her mailbox or inbox.
She opens it, and for the whole day the letter is the thing. She re-reads it. She shows it to your dad, or her sister, or a friend. She ends up putting it in the same drawer where she kept your childhood report cards, because that's what moms do with the things they love. A year from now she's different. You're different. Your relationship has moved forward. And the letter is a fixed point — proof, in your actual words or handwriting, that on one specific Mother's Day you paused and said the whole thing out loud. Done yearly, this becomes a tradition she ends up looking forward to more than the brunch.
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!
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It only takes 20 minutes. The moment it lands will be worth years.
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