The Pen & Post
How it works

Three steps, and only the last one is yours


  1. Tell us the dates

    Add the people you send cards to and the dates that matter — birthdays, anniversaries, whatever you keep meaning to mark. Add their address once and we handle the envelope from then on. Recurring dates repeat every year without you doing anything.

  2. A kit arrives, early

    Cards travel in small batches, so one flat envelope covers the next stretch of your calendar. Inside, each card sits in its own envelope — addressed to them, stamped, your return address on the back — with the cards in date order and the nearest one facing you.

  3. You write it and post it

    On the morning a card needs to go, we send you one email. The insert has a few lines to start you off if you’re stuck, and a large mail by date so it doesn’t drift. Write it, seal it, drop it in a mailbox. That’s the whole job.

Why not just send it for you?

Because a card someone else wrote isn’t worth receiving. The handwriting is the entire point — it’s the proof that you stopped and thought about them. We take care of everything around it so the only thing left is the part that matters.

Colophon
The cadence
Cards travel in small batches, and none waits more than about a fortnight between arriving and needing to be posted.
The reminder
One email, on the morning a card needs to go in the post. That is the whole notification scheme.
Set in
Cormorant Garamond and Karla. One for the engraving, one for everything that has to be read quickly.
Colour
Navy on ecru, a dove blue for emphasis, sage where an envelope would be lined, and gilt only ever as a hairline.