Our mission
Every mailbox full, on every birthday.
We think a mailbox should be the best box in the house. The one you open and find full of the people who love you. It isn't happening today, and the only thing in the way is that nobody has made it easy. That's our job.
A real photo card, printed and mailed, is $5. Postage included.
Why we're here
We think a mailbox should be the best box in the house.
Not the box the bills come to. Not the one the flyers fill. The box you open on your birthday and find full: a photo from your sister, three lines from a friend you haven't seen in years, your grandkid's face grinning up at you from a card they made themselves.
That isn't happening today, and it isn't because people don't care. The photos are on our phones. The words are in our heads. The stamps are in a drawer somewhere. Nobody is making it easy, so the mailbox stays empty.
That is the whole reason iThank.us exists. We're here to make it easy, so that on every birthday, every mailbox is full of the people who love you.
— The iThank.us mailroom
Why isn't this already happening?
Not for lack of love. Every piece is nearly there. They're just never in the same place.
The photos are on your phone.
Thousands of them. The one of the two of you at the lake has never left it.
The words are in your head.
You think of them in the car. You mean to write them down. You mean to every year.
The stamps are in a drawer.
Somewhere. Next to the card you bought for exactly this, two birthdays ago.
Nobody is holding it together. So the mailbox stays empty.
So we hold it together.
The photo, the words, the stamp and the mailbox, in one place, in two minutes.
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Make it a two-minute thing.
Pick a photo, write a few lines, tap send. We print it on real cardstock, put the stamp on and mail it. From your phone, in the time it takes to wait for a coffee.
Send a card →2
Fill a birthday mailbox together.
One person sets it up. Everyone who loves them gets a link with the address already on it. Every card lands before the day, and you can see who still needs a nudge.
How birthday celebrations work →3
Make it easy to write back.
Add a prepaid reply card and theirs comes with a code on the back. They scan it, pick a photo, write a note, and it comes home to you. The mailbox fills in both directions.
About reply cards →
Start with one mailbox.
Someone you love has a birthday coming. A real card, with their face or yours on it, for $5. Or get everyone in on it.