Send your first letter

Every letter is written in the same place, the composer. A switch at the top decides whether it travels as an email or on paper. This page takes you through both, from an empty page to a scheduled letter.

Before you start

• You need an account. When you open the composer without being signed in, you are taken to sign-in first and land in the composer afterwards.
• An email letter counts against the email letters of your plan. Email letters per month on the Free plan: 5. It schedules up to 1 year ahead.
• A paper letter is paid with credits, on any plan. It also needs your first and last name and your own postal address in Settings. Your postal address explains what they are used for.

Send an email letter

1. 01

   Open the composer

   Go to Compose. The switch at the top is set to Email.

2. 02

   Address and write

   In To, type an email address or pick a contact. Add a Subject, then write your text on the lines below it. The recipient sees the subject when they open the letter, not in the email that announces it.

3. 03

   Choose when

   In the Delivery panel choose Now, a quick choice such as Tomorrow or 1 year, or open Or pick a date and time. A quick choice means that day at 09:00, on the clock of your device. A choice with a lock is further ahead than your plan schedules.

4. 04

   Decide how long it can be opened

   Under How they open it, Link stays open for sets how long the recipient can open the letter after it is delivered. It starts at 90 days.

5. 05

   Review and confirm

   Press Review and send at the bottom, or Review and schedule when you chose a later time. Check the summary and confirm with Send now or Schedule letter.

The recipient does not get your text by email. They get a notice with a private link and an access code, and read the letter on FuturePostman. What happens between writing a letter and its delivery shows the whole route, and Write and schedule an email letter covers every option of the composer.

Send a paper letter

1. 01

   Switch to paper

   In the composer choose Paper letter at the top. If you see Finish your profile to send paper letters, press Open settings, fill in your name and address, save, and return with Back to your letter.

2. 02

   Enter the postal address

   Fill in Full name, Street and number, Postal code, City and Country. Country starts with the country of your own address. Check it, because the price depends on it.

3. 03

   Write on the page

   The page on screen shows the letter as it is printed: address, date, greeting, your text and the sign-off with your name. Click the greeting or the sign-off to change it, or empty it to print none. Your own address is printed under your name unless you switch off Print my address under my name.

4. 04

   Choose the posting day and the delivery

   Under Posted on choose Now, a quick choice such as 1 month, or Or pick a day. Under Delivery choose Standard or Tracked. The panel shows what the letter costs in credits and how many you have.

5. 05

   Review and confirm

   If you are short of credits the button says Buy credits. Otherwise press Review and send or Review and schedule, read the address once more and confirm with Send now or Schedule letter.

Write and schedule a paper letter has the details, from page breaks to the paper styles.

If the button at the bottom is grey

The bar at the bottom of the composer names the one thing that is still missing.

After you confirm

• The letter waits on FuturePostman and goes out on its day. You do not need to be signed in or have the page open.
• See my letters takes you to Manage Letters, where every letter is listed with its status. A paper letter has its own page, opened with View letter.
• An email letter is counted against your month when you schedule it, not when it is delivered. It is delivered even if you move to a smaller plan later.
• Write another clears the composer for the next letter.

Good to know

• While you write, the composer saves a draft and shows Draft saved with the time. The draft is kept in this browser only, not in your account. On another device or in another browser the composer is empty.
• Attached files are not part of the draft. Add them again after you reload the page.
• Each kind of letter has its own draft. When you switch between Email and Paper letter and the other side is still empty, your text is copied over.
• Discard removes the draft from the browser. This cannot be undone.
• The delivery time of an email letter is in the time zone of your device. The composer shows the time zone next to the time.

Read next

• Write and schedule an email letterWrite an email letter, choose the moment it arrives, check the summary and schedule it. With what the draft keeps, how dates work and what counts as a letter of your month.
• Write and schedule a paper letterWrite a letter in the composer, add the postal address, choose the posting day and pay with credits. FuturePostman prints it and posts it for you.
• What happens between writing a letter and its deliveryHow a letter waits for its day, what the recipient receives, how long the link stays open, how a paper letter is printed and posted, and what you can follow meanwhile.
• Plans and what each limit meansWhat each plan includes, how the monthly limits are counted and what happens when you reach one.

• In the appWrite a letterOpen the composer.
• See plans and prices