pawpost about

❋  the short version  ❋

For the pets we love.

pawpost is a little studio for handmade pet mail, by post. You build a doodle of your dog or cat — coat, collar, a party hat — write a note in your own words, and we print it on thick coated card and send it through the post. Something real to hold, with a face you'd know anywhere on the front.

Why this exists

Most messages live and die in a notification. A text says "thinking of you" and is gone by lunch. We wanted the opposite: a small, deliberate object that lands in someone's mailbox, gets propped up on a shelf, and is still there months later. And nothing earns a spot on the fridge like someone's pet.

So: you design the pet — no two alike — and we handle the printing and the postage. No printer, no stamps, no trip to the mailbox. You make something lovely and tell us where it's going.

How it's made

Every card is printed to order on heavyweight coated stock — your pet on the front, your note on the back — and mailed first-class through USPS, anywhere in the US.

Who's behind it

Honestly? Mostly one developer having a good time. pawpost is a small indie project — a pet-doodle builder, a printer's API, and a lot of fussing over kerning, wired together because mailing someone a tiny portrait of their best friend felt like a nice thing to make exist.

It's not a giant store. It's a studio. That's kind of the point — small enough that we can actually fuss over getting your pet right.


Questions, or a special pet in mind? Say hi — there's a real person on the other end, and they like getting mail too.

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