Write a handwritten letter to your mom. We'll deliver it on next Mother's Day, her birthday, or any day that matters. A letter she'll read and re-read for the rest of her life.
Moms keep everything. The crayon drawings. The first birthday cards. The mostly-illegible notes from summer camp. They keep the words because the words are the one thing that don't get outgrown. Now you're an adult, and the gifts you give her have gotten more polished and less personal: flowers, a nice candle, a gift card, the yearly phone call. Somewhere along the way, the thing she actually keeps stopped coming from you. You stopped giving her words.
A letter is how you give them again. You sit down tonight — phone away, distractions off — and you write your mom a real letter. Not a card. Not a text. A full, unhurried page or three about what she did for you that you didn't understand at the time. The specific thing about her that you still do in your own life. What she's meant to you across decades. What you want her to know about how she shaped you, because you've never quite gotten it all said out loud.
You seal the letter. We hold it safely. On the date you choose — Mother's Day, her birthday, a random Tuesday — it arrives in her mailbox in your handwriting. She'll open it at the kitchen table. She'll cry quietly, in private. Then she'll put the letter in the same drawer where she kept your crayon drawings and your report cards and every card you've ever sent her. Because that's what she does with the things that matter. And this letter will matter.
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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