Write your bucket list as a letter to your future self. We deliver it on the date you choose — one year out, five, twenty — so the list keeps asking you the question.
Bucket lists are mostly performance. We make them, we share them, and then a decade goes by and we've done two of the twenty things and we never think about the list again. The mechanism that's missing isn't desire — the desire was real when we wrote it — it's a way for the list itself to come back and ask whether we did it. Without that, a bucket list is just a static document of fading intentions.
A bucket list letter solves the recall problem. You write today, in your own words, the specific things you want to have done, seen, made, learned, or finished by a specific date. Not the generic items everyone puts on bucket lists. The actual list. The trip you keep putting off. The book you've been planning to write. The conversation you want to have with someone before they're gone. The skill you wish you had. Then we deliver the letter on the date you set, by which point you've either done some of it or you haven't.
The letter asks the question that the list itself never gets to ask. It's especially powerful when delivered at meaningful future ages: 30, 40, 50, the year you turn the same age your parent was when something changed for them. The bucket list letter doesn't guarantee you'll do everything. It guarantees you'll meet the version of you that meant to.
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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