Write a handwritten letter to your grandchild today. We'll deliver it on a future birthday, graduation, or wedding day — a voice from their grandparent that will survive across every year of their life.
Grandparents are the carriers of a specific kind of family memory. You remember the version of your own children that your grandchild will never meet. You know stories that happened before they were born. You remember what your family used to be like — the Sunday dinners, the specific house, the particular way their parent laughed as a kid. And some of that knowledge will only exist inside you. When it goes, it goes with you, unless you write it down.
A letter to a grandchild is one of the most generous things a grandparent can write. You sit down and you capture what you want this child to know. Your own childhood. Who their parent was as a kid. The family history they come from. What you've learned that you want to pass along. What you hope for them across a life you won't be there for all of. You seal the letter. We hold it safely. On a future milestone — their next birthday, their graduation, their wedding day — it arrives in the mail.
Your grandchild opens a letter in your handwriting, written on a specific afternoon you remember clearly, delivered years after the fact. They'll meet a version of you they might only barely remember by then. They'll read about their own family history from the person who lived it. And they'll keep the letter — in a drawer, in a box, passed down to their own kids — for the rest of their life. Grandparent letters become heirlooms by default. Write one. It will outlast almost everything else you leave behind.
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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