Write a handwritten letter to your long-distance partner today. We'll deliver it in a year — on your anniversary, the day you finally close the distance, or a date you both pick together.
Long distance relationships live on a diet of digital. Texts, video calls, shared Spotify playlists, pictures of what you're eating. It's more connection than any previous generation had across this much space — and somehow it still isn't quite enough. The pixels don't weigh anything. The messages disappear into a scroll. At the end of a long week you realize you've been talking to your partner constantly and somehow still miss them.
A letter weighs something. You sit down on your side of the distance, with an actual pen and paper, and you write the way you can't in a text thread. Longer. Slower. The things you've been meaning to say that don't fit in a message. Memories you haven't brought up in a while. What you're still hoping for — the apartment, the city, the day you stop driving or flying and start living in the same place. You seal it, mail it to us, and we deliver it to your partner a year from now, when you might already have closed the distance — or might still be counting the weeks until you do.
Either way, they'll be standing in their mailbox holding something you wrote a year earlier, in your handwriting, about the two of you. That's the gift long distance actually needs. Not another voice note. Not another FaceTime. Something tangible, kept safe, arriving on a day that matters. A reminder that even across the miles, you were thinking about them on this exact date — and you trusted those words to a whole year of waiting.
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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