Make a card.
Make a day.
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Make at home,
mail to our P.O. Box.
Get cozy, put on something warm, and make as many cards as you'd like. One, ten, a hundred. We accept rolling mail year-round.
Got a big batch? Drop us a note at hbh@artlyworld.org so we can plan the route.
What to make
- ·Any size between 4×6 and 6×8 works beautifully
- ·Heavier card stock holds up best in transit
- ·Skip glitter, perishables, or anything 3D. Postal sorters can be rough!
- ·Front: a drawing, sticker, photo, or just bold lettering
- ·Inside: a few warm sentences. See prompts below.
What to write
- ·"I was thinking of you today." (Yes, even from a stranger!)
- ·A song lyric, a recipe, a memory of someone you love
- ·"Today I noticed something beautiful outside my window and thought of you"
- ·Keep it warm. Skip politics, religion, or last names.
- ·No need to sign your full name. First name and city is plenty.
How to ship
- ·Tuck cards into a single envelope. Unsealed inside is fine.
- ·Standard postage (1 stamp) for 1–3 cards. Weigh larger bundles.
- ·Add a tiny note if you'd like a card to go to memory care, hospice, etc.
- ·Cards arrive at facilities within 4–6 weeks of mailing.
- ·We'll email you a thank-you the day your batch ships out!
Where your card goes next.
Your envelope doesn't just vanish into the mail. Here's the whole trip, mailbox to mail call.
It reaches our P.O. Box
Every card you mail in lands at our Austin P.O. Box, ready to be opened.
We open and check it
We open, lightly check, and route everything within 14 days.
We photograph it
Your card is photographed for the public archive, so you can see it made the cut.
We batch and postmark it
It's sorted and sealed into a batch with others heading the same way, then stamped with our handmade postmark.
It's hand-delivered
A volunteer hand-delivers the batch to a partner care facility, where it becomes part of mail call.
Cards arrive at facilities within 4–6 weeks of mailing, and we'll email you a thank-you the day your batch ships out.
Questions from first-time senders.
Still curious? Write us at hbh@artlyworld.org. We read everything.
We'll email you a thank-you the day your batch ships out. From there, cards arrive at facilities within 4–6 weeks of mailing.
No. Tuck your card into a single envelope, unsealed is fine. We open every envelope by hand before routing it along.
Yes. Any quantity, any month. Weigh larger bundles for postage, and drop us a note at hbh@artlyworld.org so we can plan the route.
It's opened, lightly checked, and routed within 14 days. Then it's photographed for the archive, sealed into a batch with our handmade postmark, and hand-delivered to a partner care facility.