How far ahead do cards arrive?

About two weeks before the occasion, and never much more — long enough to batch shipments, short enough that a card doesn’t vanish into a drawer.

Do you write the card?

No. The card is blank inside on purpose, and the insert offers a few lines if you want a starting point. Writing it is the one job we don’t take, because it is the one carrying the meaning — everything else here exists to get you to a pen and thirty seconds.

If writing by hand isn’t something you can do, this isn’t the right product for you, and we’d rather say so than sell you the wrong thing.

What are the cards actually like?

5 × 7 on heavy stock, blank inside, bought six to a design from small publishers and independent studios — the rack you stop at in a bookshop or a good card aisle, not a hundred of them in a box. The envelope matches the card, because the envelope is the part they see first.

Can I choose the cards?

You pick a style — Postal, Botanical, Classic, Modern or Playful — and we choose within it to suit each occasion. Any single date can override the style, so the birthday card and the sympathy card need not come from the same range.

Is postage included?

Yes. Every envelope arrives with a real stamp already on it. There is nothing to buy and no trip to make.

What if I add a date at the last minute?

We’ll get it out as fast as we can and tell you honestly whether it will land in time. We would rather say so than quietly miss it.

What about someone I’ll be seeing?

Mark the date as hand delivered and the envelope comes with just their name on the front — no address, no stamp — and you have until the day itself rather than the four to seven days ahead a posted card needs. You choose what the name says, so it can be Nana rather than Grandma. It also means you can keep a date for someone whose address you don’t have.

Where do you ship?

Anywhere in the United States, to both you and the people you’re writing to.

Can I give it as a gift?

Yes. You pay once, they add their own dates and their own addresses, and when the year is up it simply ends — no card on file, nothing to cancel. Give a year.