Write a handwritten letter during your first week at a new job — to yourself or someone starting theirs. We'll deliver it on the one-year anniversary, so you can compare the day-one nerves with everything you've learned since.
The first week at a new job is its own strange emotional season. You're learning names, navigating the bathrooms, trying to figure out where to eat lunch, and underneath all of it quietly panicking about whether you made the right choice. Every new job starts at the same place: hope and uncertainty in equal measure. And nobody remembers it clearly a year later, because by then it's all normal and the anxiety has worn off and you can barely imagine feeling that way again.
A letter preserves that week. You write it during your first few days — or the night before you start — and you tell your one-year-from-now self what you're walking into. The reason you took this job. What you're nervous about. What you want to have proven to yourself by your first work anniversary. Who you want to be in the new role. You seal it, we hold it, and exactly one year later it arrives in your mailbox.
Opening it on your one-year work anniversary is like meeting a version of yourself that doesn't exist anymore. The worries you had on day one are either validated, obsolete, or bigger than they were then. The hopes have become progress, or they've shifted into new hopes. Either way, the letter gives you something most career changes don't come with: a clear, honest snapshot of where you started. A year from now, you won't remember the tone in your head during that first week. You'll remember the letter.
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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