I
Paper and wax
A red, forest-green or midnight-blue envelope, a sheet that looks antique, golden wax. You can add a photo or a drawing, even on the envelope.
Occasions · Christmas
Christmas your Christmas wishes in a real letter, sealed in wax
With CartIrya, your Christmas wishes are a real letter: choose the paper and the wax, write what you never manage to say on the phone and, if you like, sign it by hand. Whoever receives it opens a sealed envelope, breaks the seal and watches your words appear one by one; if they want, they can answer with a letter of their own. Send it right away, or choose to have it open only on Christmas morning, like a present under the tree.
From the writer's side
How Christmas letters work
II
Write your wishes
The real ones, not the message forwarded to everyone. When it is opened, your words appear one by one, as if written in that moment.
III
Send it whenever you like
Right away, or pick a day: Christmas morning, for instance. Until then the letter stays sealed.
for Ada
sent on 20 December
Ada wrote back
IV
The seal breaks
And the letter is read. They can reply with a letter of their own; and in your Room you can see when it was opened.
24 December
25 December
The last presents under the tree.
The first one to open is a letter.
On the other side
The one it's for finds their envelope.
This is Theo's real letter to Ada, in 3D, and it's Christmas morning: tap the notification, open the envelope and read it as she would.
08:14
Friday 25 December
08:14
tap the notification
Meanwhile, in Theo's Room
for Ada
sent on 20 December
What the writer decides
- The paper, the colours, the wax, a photo even on the envelope.
- Whether to sign it by hand.
- Whether to send it now, or have it open on a chosen day: until then, the link only shows the date.
- Whether they can reply with a letter of their own.
- In your Room you can see when it was opened.
What Christmas letters cost
You pay per letter, not per month. With the classic paper you can start for free.
- The Classictwo letters a month, kraft envelope and red waxFree
- The Wanderer's Seal1 letter€3
- The Scribe's Chest10 letters€18
- Eternal Inkper month€8
With paper, colours and wax of your choice the letter is premium. Lots of people to write to? The chest of ten costs less, and with a subscription letters are unlimited. All plans
Frequently asked questions
No, the link is enough. They open it on their phone or computer, in the browser.
Yes: when you send it, you choose the day. Send the link whenever you like, even weeks before; until that day the link only shows the date, and on the 25th the same link opens the letter.
Yes, if you allow it: at the end of the letter they can answer you with a letter of their own, which comes back to you.
Yes, with a different name inside each letter: it works like an invitation, with an event pack from €9 for up to 20 people, and replies can be switched off. In that case the letters open right away, without a chosen day.
There's no catalogue, but we drew a set of Christmas illustrations ourselves — holly, pine cones, stars, ornaments, Santa, the reindeer, the sleigh, a ribbon to tie the envelope — to upload as photos on the sheet or even on the envelope: download the Christmas drawings
With the classic paper (kraft and red wax) your first two letters each month are free. With paper and colours of your choice it is a premium letter: €3, or 10 letters for €18.
Christmas wishes, the real kind
It starts with the paper.