Every letter we send is written with a real pen on real paper, folded by hand, sealed with a real postage stamp, and dropped in the mail. No handwriting fonts. No laser-printed cursive. The moment it hits your recipient’s palm, it feels personal — because it is.
The rarest thing in a modern mailbox
Emails get archived. Printed mail gets glanced at and binned. But a handwritten envelope is so unexpected that people stop and open it — our letters see open rates as high as 98%. While your competitors fight over crowded inboxes and discounted flyers, your message arrives in a format nobody else is using.
And because our custom-built writing machine does the writing at scale, you get genuine handwriting without hiring a temp with aching hands: every letter is a one-of-a-kind ink original, written with natural pressure and human irregularity, for less than it would cost you to write, fold and mail them in-house.
How it works — three steps
1. Send us your message and your list
Upload or type your letter, plus your recipient list — a name and mailing address for each person. One message to a hundred people, or a hundred personal notes. Your call.
2. Our machine writes it with a real pen
A custom-built writing machine, driven by software we built ourselves, puts real ink on paper. Merge fields like first name and neighbourhood let you personalize every letter individually.
3. We fold, stamp, and mail
Hand-folded, hand-sealed, finished with a real postage stamp — not a metered indicia that screams bulk mail — and sent through USPS. All that’s left for you is handling the replies.
Simple volume pricing
The more letters you send, the less each one costs. Per-letter pricing:
| Letters | Price each |
|---|---|
| 1 – 10 | $4.50 |
| 11 – 50 | $4.00 |
| 51 – 100 | $3.50 |
| 101 – 250 | $3.00 |
| 251 – 500 | $2.75 |
| 501 – 1,000 | $2.50 |
| 1,001 – 10,000 | $2.25 |
There’s no minimum order. Plenty of customers start with a single letter to see the real thing in their own mailbox — then come back with a list of five hundred.
Why genuine ink beats every imitation
Handwriting fonts look right until someone holds the letter. Then the uniform loops and identical letterforms give the game away — and your “personal” note is revealed as marketing.
Real Ink Letters is different by construction:
- Real pen, real ink. Natural pressure variation and slight, human irregularities — because each letter genuinely is written, not printed.
- Hand-folded, hand-sealed. The touch of a person is in the letter before it’s even read.
- A real postage stamp. The envelope says “someone cared about this,” not “bulk rate presort.”
Who sends letters with Real Ink?
We do one thing — genuine handwritten letters — and we do it for businesses where a personal relationship drives revenue:
- Real estate agents — win listing appointments, farm your area, and stay top-of-mind with past clients.
- Dental practices — recall and reactivate patients without another ignored text message.
- Orthodontic practices — follow up consultations and retention check-ins with the one format that gets pinned to the fridge.
- Mortgage brokers — open the refinance conversation and stay their broker for life.
- Insurance agents — run annual policy reviews that keep the book and win back lapsed clients.
- Home improvement companies — turn every finished job into fifty warm leads in the surrounding streets.
Not on the list? If being remembered matters to your outreach, a real letter is the loudest quiet signal you can send.
Ready to send something people will actually open?
Order in minutes — no minimum, and most orders are written, folded, and mailed within a few business days. We’ll handle the writing, folding, stamping, and mailing; you handle the replies.