Birthdays
Birthday cards from your photos, printed and mailed
A photo of the two of you, your handwriting on the back, in their mailbox on the day. Nothing to download and nothing to join.
It's a real 4×6 photo card, printed on heavyweight stock and posted by USPS — not a folded greeting card and not an e-card.
Do it now, we'll post it on the day
The problem with birthday cards isn't writing them, it's remembering in time. So make it whenever you think of it — today, 12 months before — pick the date you want it to land, and we hold it and print it on the right morning. Nothing in your calendar, nothing to remember.
When do I need to order?
October 28 is too soon for us to promise now — the order-by date was October 7. We'll still send it, and it may well arrive in time, but we won't pretend to know. You can set up next year's today and forget about it.
Or let us remember for you
Once you've sent someone a card, their address is saved. Add their birthday to it and we'll email you in time to send the next one — early enough to actually do something about it, not on the morning.
One email per birthday, and you can turn it off per person in your address book.
How it works
- 1
Pick your photo
The one off your phone. Add a line on the front if you like — a name, an age, an in-joke.
- 2
Write the message
One message for everybody, or a different message and a different photo for each person if you're sending a few.
- 3
Choose the day it lands
Tell us the date. We work out when to mail it and show you, so you can see we've left enough room.
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We print and post it
On heavyweight card, by USPS First-Class Mail. Most cards arrive within one to two weeks.
Three things people send
Same card, same price — it's what you write on it that changes.
The birthday card itself
A photo of the two of you beats a card off a rack, and it costs less than one. Grandparents keep these on the fridge; a card from the supermarket goes in the recycling in a fortnight.
Sending to several people — a parent, a sibling, three cousins in one week — is the same order, and each of them can have their own photo and their own date.
Party invitations
A photo invitation that arrives in the post gets opened, which is more than can be said for the group chat it would otherwise live in. Put the photo on the front and the where-and-when on the back.
Paste or import the whole list at once. $3.99 for the first and $3 for each one after, posted — twenty invitations is $60.99, with the stamps.
Work backwards from the party, not the birthday: use the calculator above with the date you want people to have it, and give them a couple of weeks to reply.
Thank you cards
The ones that never get written. Use a photo from the party itself — the cake, the mess, the kid wearing the wrapping paper — and they go out while people still remember being there.
It's the same list you just posted the invitations to, so the addresses are already in your account.
What it costs
$3.99 for the first card and $3 for each one after, with printing and US postage included. No stamps to buy, no shipping, no account fee, and nothing is charged until you check out — scheduling a card months ahead costs no more than sending one today.
Delivery times and sending to a list are covered on the FAQ, and how to send one walks through it step by step. Sending at Christmas instead? There's a page for that.