Write a handwritten letter on the day of a promotion — to yourself or someone who earned it. We'll deliver it one year later, when the new role has shaped them in ways today can't predict.
A promotion gets a week of attention at most. An email goes out, people send congratulations, someone buys a drink, and then the actual work of the new role starts on Monday and doesn't stop. By the six-month mark, the promotion has stopped feeling new and started feeling like the job. The person who got it is learning things they didn't know they needed to learn and failing quietly in ways no one talks about. By the one-year mark, they're a different professional than the one who got the news.
A letter written on promotion day captures a very specific version of that professional — the one in the middle of a career-defining moment, before the new role has done its work on them. You write it yourself, or you write it to a colleague, family member, or mentee who earned it. You describe what the promotion means. What you watched them do to get there. What you hope they remember in the hard stretches of the new role. What you're proud of that they might downplay. Then you mail it to us, and on the one-year mark it arrives.
Opening it after a year in the new role is a different kind of congratulations. The person reading it has already learned what the job actually requires. They've already hit the first wall. They've probably doubted themselves at least once. And here is a letter from the version of them (or from someone watching them) on the day they got the news — full of belief, hope, and specific reasons they deserved it. That belief, arriving on paper a year later, lands differently than the Slack messages ever did.
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
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It only takes 20 minutes. The moment it lands will be worth years.
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