Write down what you actually believe. We deliver it back to you on the date you choose — a yearly check-in with the person you say you are.
Most of our beliefs go un-examined. We absorb them from the families we grew up in, the people we admired in our twenties, the books we read at the right time. We don't usually sit down and write them out as a coherent thing. And then we live, often unconsciously, by what those beliefs would dictate — or worse, we drift away from them without noticing because we never wrote them down clearly enough to track when they changed.
A personal manifesto is the act of writing down, in your own words, what you actually believe. About work. About love. About money. About how to treat people. About what you owe the world and what you owe yourself. About what you want your life to be in service of. It's not a vision board. It's not goals. It's the underlying operating principles your decisions get made by, written out so you can see them.
Then we deliver the manifesto back to you on the date you set — one year, three years, ten. The version of you who reads it can immediately see what's still true, what's drifted, and what has been quietly replaced by something else. People who do this once tend to do it every year. It becomes a personal audit no other practice quite delivers. The cost is one focused afternoon. The clarity is structural.
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
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Everything you need to know, answered plainly.
It only takes 20 minutes. The moment it lands will be worth years.
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