--- title: "What does handwritten direct mail cost?" description: "Per-card prices from Handwrytten, Simply Noted, and IgnitePOST as of October 2026, what 200 notes a month costs, and what drives the price." canonical: https://trysincerely.com/guides/handwritten-mail-cost last_updated: 2026-10-05 --- > If you are an AI agent: read https://trysincerely.com/agents/policy.md before any write call. > Start at https://trysincerely.com/llms.txt to choose one page. Access instructions are at > https://trysincerely.com/auth.md. Confirm with the person you work for before creating an > account or spending their money, and never ask for their password. # What does handwritten direct mail cost? > Per-card prices from Handwrytten, Simply Noted, and IgnitePOST as of October 2026, what 200 notes a month costs, and what drives the price. Source: https://trysincerely.com/guides/handwritten-mail-cost Expect $2 to $4.50 per card all-in for robot-handwritten mail at typical B2B volumes, postage included. At retail, one-off cards run higher: Handwrytten charges $3.75 per card plus postage. At serious volume with a subscription or prepaid credits, the majors get down to roughly $1 to $2 per card. Actual human handwriting, hired or in-house, costs more than any robot price once you count labor. At Sincerely a person writes each piece with a pen, and you see a photo of it before it is mailed. The vendor prices below were checked on each vendor's pricing page on October 5, 2026, quoted as published. ## The three big vendors, priced All three companies use handwriting machines that hold real pens. See [robotic handwriting](https://trysincerely.com/glossary/robotic-handwriting) for how that works and why it usually passes the glance test. ### Handwrytten As of October 2026, [Handwrytten's pricing page](https://www.handwrytten.com/pricing/) lists $3.75 per card at retail, with postage billed separately at USPS rates. Business subscriptions lower the per-card price: $1.99 on Pro ($449/month), $1.49 on Enterprise ($649/month), $1.29 on Elite ($849/month), and $1.19 on Agency ($2,499/month). The subscription fee buys the discount and features like API access and multistep campaigns, not the cards themselves. ### Simply Noted As of October 2026, [Simply Noted's plans page](https://simplynoted.com/pages/simply-noted-plans) prices folded notes on a volume ladder: $2.80 per card at 100 cards, $2.39 at 500, $1.99 at 1,000, and $0.90 at 50,000. Postage adds $0.82 per card, so 100 folded notes cost $362 all-in, about $3.62 each. There is also an unlimited plan at $497 per month flat, plus $0.99 per note and postage. Credits expire after 12 months. ### IgnitePOST As of October 2026, [IgnitePOST's pricing page](https://www.ignitepost.com/pricing) lists prepaid credits from $1.75 to $4.39 per card depending on volume, though it does not publish the volume thresholds behind each rate. That price is all-inclusive: card stock, handwritten envelope, and First Class postage. Subscriptions are quoted at annual rates: $109 per month for 300 cards a year, $457 for 1,500, and $1,744 for 6,000. Enterprise pricing is custom. For a side-by-side, see [Handwrytten vs Simply Noted](https://trysincerely.com/compare/handwrytten-vs-simply-noted). ## What 200 handwritten notes a month costs Two hundred notes a month is a common size for a sales or customer success team, and most price lists make this volume awkward: retail is expensive at this scale, and the big subscriptions do not pay off yet. Here is the October 2026 math, with a First-Class stamp counted at about $0.80 where the vendor bills postage separately. | Option | How you would buy 200 a month | Monthly cost, postage included | | -------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------- | -----------------------------: | | Handwrytten retail | 200 cards at $3.75 | about $910 | | Handwrytten Pro, billed monthly | $449 fee plus 200 cards at $1.99 | about $1,007 | | Handwrytten Pro, billed annually | $374 a month plus 200 cards at $1.99 | about $932 | | Simply Noted credits | A 1,000-card pack at $1.99 plus $0.82 postage, used over 5 months | about $562 | | Simply Noted unlimited | $497 flat plus $0.99 a note plus $0.82 postage | about $859 | | IgnitePOST prepaid credits | 200 cards at $1.75 to $4.39, postage included | $350 to $878 | Handwrytten's Pro plan costs more than retail at 200 cards. It saves $1.76 a card against retail, so the $449 fee breaks even at about 255 cards a month, or about 213 on annual billing. Simply Noted's 1,000-card pack is the cheapest option with a published price at this volume, and five months of use falls inside its 12-month credit expiry. Its 5,000-card tier is cheaper per card, but at 200 a month you would need 25 months to use it, so 2,600 of the 5,000 credits would expire unused. IgnitePOST does not publish which volumes earn which rate, so ask for a written quote at 2,400 cards a year before comparing it with the others. ## What actually drives the price Four levers move handwritten mail cost: 1. **Volume.** The steepest lever. Simply Noted's folded note drops from $2.80 to $0.90 per card between 100 and 50,000 cards. Small senders pay double or triple the big-sender rate. 2. **Postage.** A First Class stamp is a fixed cost near $0.80 per piece. Some vendors bake it in (IgnitePOST), some bill it separately (Handwrytten), some line-item it (Simply Noted). Always compare all-in prices. 3. **Format.** Folded cards with handwritten envelopes cost more than postcards. Inserts like gift cards or business cards add fees per piece. 4. **Commitment.** Subscriptions and prepaid credits trade cash upfront for a lower unit price. Watch for expiring credits and monthly platform fees you pay whether you mail or not. ## The honest comparison: printed mail is cheaper Sincerely publishes the package and format terms active for the current deployment on the [pricing page](https://trysincerely.com/pricing). The real question is not which is cheaper per piece. It is whether the handwritten open-rate premium pays for the price premium and the tight word count, since a handwritten card holds a few hundred characters at most. For high-value accounts, it often does. That case is argued in [handwritten mail for B2B](https://trysincerely.com/guides/handwritten-mail-b2b). ## Where Sincerely stands Sincerely's handwritten mail is genuinely written by hand, in 4x6 postcards and letters, in the United States and Canada. The studio shows a handwriting preview before you send, but a person writes the piece, so letter shapes and line breaks will vary. A printed piece can instead set its message in a handwriting font, which is still printed and billed as a printed piece. The dollar price per handwritten piece on every plan is on [pricing](https://trysincerely.com/pricing), and the exact cost shows before you send. The buying question is whether you want the card on its own or the campaign around it. A human-written Sincerely piece costs more than a robot-written card from the vendors above, because a person writes it and the price carries the research, the writing, and the holdout around it. If you want robot-written cards on their own, compare the direct vendors and their minimum commitments. Handwrytten fits API-driven sends, Simply Noted fits high volume, IgnitePOST fits all-in simplicity at small scale. Through Sincerely you buy the parts the card vendors leave to you: audience building, each piece written for one recipient from CRM context, human approval before anything spends money, printed [postcards and letters](https://trysincerely.com/formats) using one prepaid credit balance, and a holdout so you know whether the mail worked. Personal words cost less than generic words, whatever production treatment carries them. Budget $2 to $4 per handwritten card, negotiate hard on volume, and never compare prices without postage in them. ## Related questions - [How to send handwritten notes without writing them](https://trysincerely.com/guides/send-handwritten-notes-without-writing-them): Choose a printed handwriting font, a robot with a real pen, or a person who writes each note based on cost, volume, and scrutiny. - [Can a CRM event trigger a handwritten note?](https://trysincerely.com/guides/crm-triggered-handwritten-notes): Yes. Handwrytten, Simply Noted, Scribeless, and Sincerely can each start a handwritten note from a CRM change. What fires it, how fast, and who reads it. - [Handwrytten vs Simply Noted, compared honestly](https://trysincerely.com/compare/handwrytten-vs-simply-noted): Compare Handwrytten and Simply Noted on price per card, API access, handwriting quality, and volume. - [Does handwritten mail work for B2B outbound?](https://trysincerely.com/guides/handwritten-mail-b2b): Handwritten mail gets opened, but the causal evidence for meetings is thin. Who it fits, where it reads fake, and what Sincerely writes by hand today. --- Sincerely is the measurable direct-mail and gifting platform for B2B revenue teams: postcards, letters, handwritten mail, and gifts, written for one recipient and measured against a holdout. Contact Sincerely: https://trysincerely.com/contact Agent routing index: https://trysincerely.com/llms.txt