Write to someone facing cancer today. We'll hold your letter safely and deliver it on a date you choose — a treatment milestone, the end of chemo, remission, or simply a hard day ahead.
When someone you love is diagnosed, there's an urgency to do something — and a quiet helplessness when you realize most of the things you want to do, you can't. You can't fight the cancer for them. You can't take the chemo for them. You can't stand behind them in the bathroom at 3 a.m. on the worst nights. What you can do is write down, right now, everything you need them to know — and make sure those words are waiting for them on a day when they're going to need them most.
A time-capsule letter gives you that. You sit down today, while the diagnosis is still raw and what you feel about this person is at its most honest, and you write the things you've never quite said out loud. What they've meant to you. What they've survived already. What you know about them that tells you they can get through this, too. What you're hoping for on the other side. Then you mail it to us, and we hold it until the day you chose: the end of chemo, the scan that hopefully brings good news, or just a random Tuesday in the middle of the hardest stretch.
When the letter arrives, they'll be standing somewhere they didn't know they'd be — maybe stronger than they feared, maybe more tired than they expected. Either way, they'll be opening an envelope in your handwriting on a day you already knew would matter. That's the gift: presence, across time, in words that don't waver even when everything else does. A letter held safely for a year, mailed back the moment it's needed most.
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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