Write a handwritten letter to your newborn during their first weeks. We'll deliver it on their first birthday — so you and they can meet the version of you that existed on the day they arrived.
Your newborn won't remember any of this. The bleary middle-of-the-night feedings. The first walk outside together. The way their hand wrapped around your finger the first time you looked at each other properly. You'll tell them stories about these months someday, but the actual emotional reality of them — the love, the fear, the quiet awe at the human you just made — is almost impossible to describe later. The only way to preserve that feeling is to write it down while it's still happening.
A letter to your newborn, written in the first few weeks and delivered on their first birthday, is the single best way we know of to capture that period. You write as the parent you are right now — sleep-deprived, terrified, overwhelmed, completely in love. You describe their fingernails. The way they smell after a bath. The specific thing they do in their sleep that already feels like it's theirs. You write to the one-year-old they're about to become. You tell them who they were before they could tell you anything themselves.
One year later, on their first birthday, the letter comes back in the mail. You read it to your now-toddler in the same room where you wrote it, and you get to re-meet the version of yourself who was barely surviving that first month but somehow found a pen. Then you put the letter away in their keepsake box. They'll read it themselves one day, when they're old enough to understand what it meant — and they'll meet their own first year through their parent's eyes. That's a gift that keeps working for the rest of their life.
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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