Write a handwritten letter to yourself on New Year's. We'll deliver it exactly one year later — on New Year's morning, when you can finally read what last year's version of you had to say about this one.
New Year's resolutions are famously useless. They evaporate by February, maybe March. What doesn't evaporate is the version of yourself who wrote them — the person sitting at a kitchen table on January 1, honestly hoping something would change, actually believing a little, writing things down that most of the year would try to talk them out of. That version of you is interesting. That version is worth writing to a year later, whether or not the resolutions actually stuck.
A New Year letter to your future self is not a resolution list. It's a portrait. You describe who you are on January 1 of this year. What you're hoping for. What you're afraid of. The things you're quietly planning to change. The things you don't know yet that you're going to have to deal with. Then you seal the letter, we hold it, and exactly one year later — on New Year's morning — it arrives in your mailbox.
Opening a letter from your one-year-ago self on New Year's Day is one of the most useful rituals we know of. You can see what you worried about that didn't matter. What you hoped for that happened. What you completely missed in your predictions for the year. Done yearly, it becomes a stack of letters that tracks your whole life, in handwriting, one year at a time. It's the opposite of a failed resolution: proof that even when the specific goals don't land, the person writing them keeps becoming someone new.
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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