Write to your best friend tonight. We'll hold your letter safely and deliver it a year from now — the most personal, sentimental gift you can give the person who knows you best.
There's a specific thing we never say to our best friends, and it's usually the most important thing. You've had this person in your life through moves, breakups, jobs they hated, dates that went wrong, your worst years and your best. You know them the way only a few people get to know each other. And yet the actual words — what they mean to you, what you've learned from them, why your life would be unrecognizable without them — those words tend to get stuck behind inside jokes and voice memos that end in laughing.
A letter changes that. You sit down, pen in hand, and you write the things you've been meaning to tell your best friend for years. The memory you still laugh about. The night you called them from the kitchen floor. The way they showed up during the worst month you had. The qualities they don't know you notice. You don't have to say them out loud. You just have to write them down.
Then you seal the letter, we hold it, and one year from now it arrives in their mailbox — in your handwriting, on a random day when they're half-asleep getting the mail. They open it. They read what you wrote. They cry, or they laugh, or they call you immediately and you both just sit there on the phone for an hour. That's the gift. The rare, specific moment of your best friend fully understanding how much they've meant to you. Not on a birthday card. In your own words. Held for a year. Delivered when it actually lands.
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!
Everything you need to know, answered plainly.
It only takes 20 minutes. The moment it lands will be worth years.
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