Write down the things you want to outlast you. Family stories, lessons, hopes for grandchildren you may never meet. We hold the letter and deliver it on the date you choose.
What we leave behind is mostly stuff. Houses, bank accounts, possessions, a few photos. None of it carries our voice. None of it tells the people who come after us who we actually were — what we believed, what we struggled with, what we wanted them to know about being alive. The closest most families get to a legacy of voice is a handful of stories told at funerals, and even those are filtered through someone else's memory of you. A legacy letter solves the problem at the source.
You write today the things you want to outlast you. Family history that only you know. The lessons you wish someone had told you at twenty-five. What you've learned about love, work, money, parenting, faith, doubt. The version of yourself you want grandchildren who haven't been born yet to meet. You don't have to write a memoir. A few pages, in your real voice, with the specifics intact, is plenty.
Then we hold the letter. You pick a date — a future birthday, an anniversary, a specific year — and the letter lands in the recipient's hands at exactly that moment. Some legacy letters are delivered while the writer is still alive (a grandparent to a teenager on graduation day). Some are written for after. Either way, the letter does the one thing that no other form of inheritance does: it preserves you in your own voice, 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!
Everything you need to know, answered plainly.
It only takes 20 minutes. The moment it lands will be worth years.
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