The Pen & Post
A card for every date you keep forgetting

You write the card.
We do the rest.


Tell us the birthdays and anniversaries you care about. About two weeks before each one, a card arrives at your door — blank inside, in an envelope already addressed to them and already stamped. You write it. You mail it.

No app to remember. No card aisle. No “I’ll send it this weekend.”

What lands on your doormat
  • i

    A card worth sending

    Chosen to suit the occasion and blank inside — the only part that matters is the part you write.

  • ii

    An envelope, ready to go

    Their address on the front, yours on the back, a real stamp in the corner.

  • iii

    A note with the date

    A few lines to start you off, and a large mail-by date so the card actually goes.

Arrives about two weeks early

Why this exists

The problem was never the card

Nobody forgets their mother’s birthday because they don’t care. They forget because it is a Tuesday in April and nothing reminded them until it was already Thursday.

Add the dates once

Birthdays, anniversaries, whatever matters. They repeat every year without you touching them again.

Cards arrive ahead of time

Grouped into a single flat envelope, in date order, nearest one facing you.

We nudge you on the day

One email on the morning it needs to go in the post. Then it’s a thirty-second job.

Plans

Billed once a year, spent as the dates arrive

Full pricing and FAQ →
Starter

$79/yr

6 cards · $13.17 each For a short list
Choose Starter or $8.99 a month
Family

$249/yr

24 cards · $10.38 each For a big family
Choose Family or $26.99 a month

Everything is included — the cards, the envelopes, the stamps, and the postage to get them to you. Twelve cards bought in a hurry run about $84, plus $9.84 in stamps, plus twelve trips you didn’t want to make — and you still forgot two of them.

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.