Pictured: a sampling of postcards. Yours are chosen by hand, just for you.
Correspondence Box
Stay close to the people you love, wherever you are.
Thirteen postcards, chosen by hand for you.
Travel takes us away from the people we love, and the postcard has always been how we bring them along. The Postcard Société is a correspondence box made to go with you, small enough for a carry-on and ready for a café table in a new city. It begins with a few questions about how you write, and who you write to: your Correspondence Portrait. From your answers, I choose your thirteen postcards by hand.
Between trips, it stays home as an analogue practice: write every afternoon, every Sunday, or whenever someone comes to mind. And the moment you join, you become an official society member and are welcomed into the seasonal sets that follow.
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Curious first? Take your Correspondence Portrait — a few questions, about two minutes.
Pictured: a sampling of postcards. Yours are chosen by hand, just for you.
What's inside
Everything you need to write from anywhere.
Each element of the box was chosen with care: for how it looks, how it feels, and how it all works together, whether you’re writing from the road or from home.
Postcards, Chosen For You
From independent artists and makers, picked by hand from your answers to the Correspondence Portrait. One to keep for yourself, twelve to send.
Address Book
A proper cloth-bound book that will stay with you forever. Because some things deserve more than to be saved in a phone.
Correspondence Pen
A beautiful pen chosen for the pleasure of writing by hand. It makes all the difference.
Postcard Stamps
Ready to go. The small friction of finding a stamp has ended more correspondence practices than anyone would like to admit.
Linen Keepsake Box
To store your cards over time, perhaps even ones you receive in return: a growing record of the people, places, and things you love, and easy to take with you on the road.
Correspondence Guide
Written by me, a psychologist, on the science and practice of building an analogue practice, to help you get started.
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“The difference between wanting to stay in touch and actually staying in touch is rarely how much you care. It’s whether the habit has somewhere to live.”From the Correspondence Guide
Why this exists
Most of us have a postcard we bought on a trip and never sent.
It might be tucked in a suitcase pocket, or propped on a shelf next to a stationery set that started with real enthusiasm. The thought surfaces — I should write to her, I should send this, I should be on my phone less — and drifts away again.
The desire is genuinely there. What’s missing usually isn’t willpower. It’s a place for the habit to live.
As a psychologist, I’ve spent years thinking about why meaningful habits fade, and the answer often isn’t a lack of motivation. It’s the absence of a container: a place, a time, and a set of beautiful objects waiting for you.
The Postcard Société was designed to be that container: a box of beautiful things, with postcards I’ve chosen by hand for you, that makes one small, meaningful act easy to repeat. Packed for a trip, it might mean a card a day from wherever you are. Back home, it’s there whenever someone comes to mind, or once a week on a day you choose.
Pictured: a sampling of postcards. Your set is gathered with the same care, and may include different cards than what's shown here.
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The practice
One postcard.
One person in mind.
The practice is designed to be small enough to actually do. A postcard takes five minutes. It asks nothing elaborate of you. Just a few sentences, a stamp, and a name.
How often is up to you: a card a day from a trip, or one on a slow morning at home. The box is small on purpose, because small things are the ones we keep doing, and a postcard is something you can actually finish.
Step 01
Choose a moment. A café table in a new city, a train window, the kitchen table on a Sunday. Five minutes is enough.
Step 02
Choose one person — or two, or three. Someone you’ve been meaning to reach. Someone who will stop and smile when they see your handwriting on a card.
Step 03
Write a few sentences. Something you noticed. Something that made you think of them. Fold nothing — just stamp and send.
And somewhere, someone finds your handwriting in their mailbox.
A note from the founder
I made this because I needed it too.
I’m a psychologist, and I’ve spent a long time thinking about how places and people shape us, and what it takes to stay connected to the people we love, especially when we’re far from them.
I kept recommending analogue practices, and trying them myself, and watching them begin beautifully, then fade. The box of stationery ended up buried in a drawer. The stamps ran out and were never replaced. The moment never quite lasted.
The digital always seems to take over. We know what we want — more presence, more slowness, more real connection — but the path back isn’t always clear.
The Postcard Société is what I wished had existed: a box that makes the practice easy to keep, whether you’re writing from the road or from home. Postcards are the perfect size for it. Small enough to finish. Beautiful enough to keep.
Your initial box is made just for you. Tell me a few things about yourself, and I’ll put together a collection of postcards precisely with you in mind.
From there, you’ll be invited to purchase each new seasonal set as it’s released — a new suite with every equinox and solstice, four times a year, each one a new set of artists, a new anthology of cards. This way your supply always stays full and your practice keeps going.
I hope it finds the right hands.
— KatieThe edition calendar
A new edition, four times a year.
The box is where The Société begins, chosen by hand, just for you. From there, a new suite of thirteen postcards, from a new set of artists, is released with every equinox and solstice. As a member, you’ll be invited to purchase each one, so you can refill your box and keep your practice going.
Each seasonal set is offered only to members. Your first box is where it all begins.
Begin the practice
The Postcard Société
Correspondence Box
Begin whenever you’re ready, for a trip or for home. Your box is chosen by hand, just for you. And the moment you join, you’re welcomed into the society, with an invitation to purchase each new suite every equinox and solstice after.
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Curious first? Take your Correspondence Portrait — a few questions, about two minutes.