☞ How it works
From keyboard to mailbox — a year apart.
The full path your letter takes.
- 01
You write
Sign up with your email — we'll send a magic link, no passwords. You write your letter in the editor. Pick a delivery date — six months, a year, ten years from now.
- 02
You pay
Stripe handles the payment. £15 single, £25 premium, £20 gift, £20/year annual sub, £8/month monthly. Card or Apple/Google Pay.
- 03
We encrypt and queue
The moment you save, your letter is encrypted with libsodium AES-GCM. Plaintext is never stored. We hand a print job to our mail partner — Stannp UK — with the future delivery date attached. Stannp owns the schedule from this point. Even if write-self.org disappears tomorrow, your letter still mails.
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We check in
Quarterly, you get a brief email — 'we still have your letter, here's the countdown.' Thirty days before delivery, you get a heads-up. The day it ships, we tell you it's gone.
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It arrives
On the morning of the day you chose, your letter is printed on heavy paper, sealed in an envelope, and dropped in the post. Royal Mail delivers it a day or two later, in your hand. Email gets deleted. Paper waits for you.
What if I want to change the letter?
Up until 24 hours before the delivery date, you can edit the letter, change the date, or cancel for a full refund. After that, the print job is at the printer and we can't pull it back. Be careful with last-minute changes — we'd rather you write it twice than send the wrong version.