Write a handwritten letter during your first weeks in a new home. We'll deliver it one year later — on the anniversary of the day the keys were yours.
The first year in a new home is a year that disappears into logistics. Paint colors, furniture deliveries, the dishwasher that broke in month three, the neighbor you were scared of at first who turned out to be great. You start the year standing in an empty living room with a takeout pizza. You end it sitting on a couch that already has a favorite corner, in a space that somehow started feeling like yours without anyone noticing exactly when.
Write a letter during that first week. Describe the empty rooms. The way the morning light hit the kitchen before you'd bought curtains. The thing you're already planning to change. What you hope this house witnesses. Who you hope lives in it over the next decade. What you're leaving behind from the old place, and what you're carrying in. Then seal it, mail it in, and we deliver it back to you on the one-year anniversary of the closing date.
A year later, you're reading a letter from the version of yourself that stood in an empty house wondering if this was going to work. Your couch is there. Your walls have marks. You know this place now. And the letter reminds you, in your own handwriting, of the specific hopes you brought into it. It's part housewarming, part time capsule, part self-portrait. A year of a new home condensed into a single envelope that arrives exactly on the anniversary.
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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