Write a letter to the new mom today — about this exact moment, this baby, this version of her family. We'll deliver it on the baby's first birthday, when she needs it most.
The first year of motherhood is a year no one really sees clearly while they're in it. The sleep-deprived photos. The tiny outfits that fit for two weeks. The half-finished texts to friends at 3 a.m. A new mom is doing the most important thing she'll ever do, and she's doing it while too exhausted to remember what any of it felt like. That's the tragedy of new motherhood: the most meaningful year of her life is the one she's most likely to forget.
A time-capsule letter fixes that. You sit down in the first weeks after the baby comes home and you write about what you see. What she looks like holding her baby. The small, fierce ways she's already changed. The tiny human who didn't exist two months ago and is now the entire center of her world. You mail it in, we hold it safely, and exactly one year later — on her baby's first birthday — it shows up in her mailbox.
She opens it and reads about a moment she was too tired to remember. The way she used to hum the baby to sleep. How she looked the first time she got out of the house alone. The way her partner watched her during those first days and knew she was built for this. It's not a gift she'll put on a shelf. It's a gift she'll cry over in the kitchen and tuck into the baby's keepsake box. One year from now, she'll be someone different — and she'll have your handwriting to remember who she was when it all began.
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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