Write a handwritten letter to your baby today — capturing exactly who you are in this first year of their life. We'll deliver it on their first birthday, and they'll keep it forever.
Your baby won't remember their first year. That's the strange, poignant thing about new parenthood: the period in their life where you're the most consumed by them, the most transformed by them, the most exhausted and in love — they won't recall any of it. The stories you'll tell them someday are all you'll have to share, and the stories will always be the version you remember, not the version you lived. The actual inside feeling of those first months vanishes the fastest.
A letter, written right now to your baby, pins it down. You write in your real voice, to the specific tiny human sleeping in the other room, on a specific night when you couldn't get them down and ended up writing instead. You describe what they look like today. The things they already do that feel like them. What you're learning about yourself in this first year of parenthood. What you want them to know about who you were when they were new. Then you seal the letter, we hold it, and on their first birthday it arrives in the mail.
They won't read it on that first birthday — they're one. But you will, with them in your lap. And years from now, when they're old enough, they'll read it themselves. They'll meet the version of their parent that existed at the beginning of their life — the one who was still learning how to be anyone's parent, let alone theirs. Most kids don't ever get that. They get a few photos and a lot of retold stories. Your kid is going to get a real letter, in your real handwriting, from the parent you were before you even knew who they were.
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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