Right now, almost all of our love letters are sent digitally. This allows recipients to use a non-identifiable email address to receive letters.
The only physical addresses we will accept/send to are PO Boxes or a business address for safety reasons.
Only the first name, pronouns, and age range (child / teen / young adult / adult) are shared with matched senders.
Receivers have the opportunity to indicate if there is additional information they would like shared with their senders, this information is shared too.
All letters go directly to TLLE for screening and are distributed by TLLE.
Contact information between senders and receivers is never shared.
The short answer is - no.
While there are times that a love letter recipient wants to send something back, that's not the norm nor the point.
The point of this project is to freely send support and love. You can't send and receive freely unless there's no obligation of response.
We're also not willing to share personal contact information for any of our participants.
Should we have named this project differently? Absolutely - yes.
Did we go from first idea to delivering our first letter within a whirlwind 24 hours? Again, yes.
Will we learn from this and slow down? Highly doubtful.
First - we are firm believers that there is no wrong way to share your love in these letters.
If you're unsure of where to start, you can share a bit of who you are and what you hope for your reader.
You can share things that are true (they are important, they are loved, they are seen).
You could even write a haiku, draw them a picture (just attach it to your email), or turn their name into an anigram.
The sky is the limit.
Here are a few things we don't allow (read - will remove) from letters we deliver:
Personally identifiable information, i.e. your full name, your job title and where you work, etc. If someone could use it to trace back and find your identity, we remove this information.
Proselytizing of any kind.
There are a few more we highly recommend you avoid:
Direct questions. The intention is not for your readers to write back, it's for them to feel loved.
Doom spirals. The goal of this project is to uplift. We can acknowledge fear and pain without dumping our anxieties on our readers.