Write to a friend or family member who's about to move. We'll deliver your letter on their one-year anniversary in the new city — the month homesickness usually hits hardest.
Everyone throws them a going-away dinner. Everyone says "stay in touch." Everyone means it. And then life happens, on both sides of the move, and the texts get thinner and the calls get shorter, and somewhere around the eight-month mark the person who moved realizes that their old life has been quietly closing behind them. The first year in a new city is one of the loneliest years anyone has, even when everything's going well. Especially when everything's going well.
A letter written the week before they leave, held for a year, and delivered to their new address is the exact gift that first year needs. You sit down while their boxes are still in your living room and you write the things you couldn't quite say at the going-away dinner — what you're going to miss, what you know they're going to be great at, the small local things you already know will remind you of them when they're gone. Then you mail it in. We hold it. And a year later, in their new city, their handwriting arrives from their old one.
They open it sitting at a kitchen table that still feels a little too new, in a life that's mostly figured out but still missing something. And for ten minutes they're home again, hearing your voice, being reminded that a whole group of people they love are still thinking about them even if the group chat has gone quieter than it used to be. It's a small, specific kind of gift. And it arrives exactly when 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!
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It only takes 20 minutes. The moment it lands will be worth years.
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