THE SUNDAY PALS NETWORK

We're Keeping Your Letters.

The Print Shop in Bay Village is now an official Letter-Keeper in the Sunday Pals Network — and you're invited to find your person.

The Sunday Letter Project is a free, global movement built around the simple promise of writing one letter every Sunday.

What happens when 11,000 people start writing letters every week and realize they want to write to someone new? Someone they haven't met yet. Someone who might understand them in a way that feels rare and unhurried and real.

That's where Sunday Pals comes in. 

The Sunday Pals Network is a pen pal system unlike any other — because it was built with care, with community, and with the safety of its members at its heart.

Here's the beautiful problem it solved: people taking the Sunday Letter pledge started asking if they could find a pen pal through the project. A kindred spirit. Someone to write to who was also searching for that same slower, more intentional kind of connection. But exchanging home addresses with strangers on the internet? That wasn't something anyone wanted to encourage.

So the team behind The Sunday Letter Project did something quietly genius.

They built a network of independent shops — stationery stores, bookshops, cafes, galleries — and invited them to become Letter-Keepers. Physical, real-world homes for letters. Places where correspondence could be held safely, without anyone ever having to share where they actually live.

"You could write shop to shop — a modern twist on the old Poste Restante system."

Poste Restante, if you haven't heard of it, was the original traveling mail system. Before fixed addresses were the norm, a letter could be sent to a post office in any city, held there, and collected by a traveler passing through. It was how people stayed connected across distances and across lives that didn't stand still.

Sunday Pals has brought that idea back — and given it a home in the kind of independent shops that still believe in slow, meaningful things.

The Print Shop is one of those shops.

 

What It Means to Be a Letter-Keeper

Being a Letter-Keeper isn't just a designation. It's a role we take seriously — and one we're genuinely honored to hold.

It means that when you write your intro letter and send it to us, we receive it with care. We place it in our collection of Sunday Pals letters — a pool of real, handwritten introductions from people all over, each one a small act of courage and openness.

When someone walks into The Print Shop, they'll have the chance to browse those letters. To read a few lines from a stranger and feel something stir. To think: this person sounds like someone I'd want to know.

And then — if they feel moved — they write back.

Their reply goes to the shop address listed on your original envelope. Your local Letter-Keeper. Where it waits for you, tucked safely away, until the day you walk through the door and find that someone, somewhere, chose your words. 

That moment is something no algorithm will ever be able to replicate.

How to Become a Sunday Pal

It's wonderfully simple. Here's how it works:

 

1. Take the pledge at thesundayletterproject.com — it's free, and it takes about thirty seconds.

2. Write your intro letter. Tell a stranger who you are. What you love. What you're looking for. What you want to talk about on paper that you can't quite say out loud. Be yourself — that's the whole point.

3. Send your intro letter to The Print Shop in Bay Village. Include our shop address on the back of your envelope as your return address. That's the only address anyone will ever need.

4. Wait. (The good kind of waiting.) Your letter joins our pool, and when someone connects with what you've written, they'll write back — to us, for you.

5. Come in and collect your reply. 

 

That's it.

A Few Gentle Rules

Sunday Pals is a safe and kind space, and just a handful of simple guidelines keep it that way:

— No personal details in your letter — no home address, phone number, or social media handles. All contact stays within the network.

— Keep it kind. Sunday Pals is about genuine connection — not persuasion, debate, or promotion.

— No sales or self-advertising of any kind.

— If you ever need a break, just let us know. No awkwardness. No explanation required.

— We, as your Letter-Keeper, reserve the right to hold back any letter that doesn't feel right. Your safety matters to us.

 

 

 

Why This Feels Like Us

We didn't become a Letter-Keeper because it seemed like a nice thing to do. We became one because it is exactly what The Print Shop stands for.

We have always believed that this shop is more than a place to buy beautiful things — though we hope you find plenty of those. It's a place to exhale. To remember what you value. To pick up something made with care and take it home to someone you love.

Hosting Sunday Pals letters feels like a natural extension of all of that. We get to be a small part of connections that might last a lifetime. We get to be the place where someone comes in on a Tuesday and leaves holding a letter they didn't know they needed.

 

Ready to Find Your Sunday Pal?

Come in and talk to us. We'll tell you everything you need to know and help you find the perfect paper to write your intro letter on.

Because somewhere out there, there is someone who writes letters on Sunday mornings too. Someone who chooses their words. Someone who will seal an envelope and address it to a little shop on Wolf Road, because you wrote something that made them feel a little less alone.

All they need is your letter.

Come write it.

Our Address/ How to Address the envelope: 

To: (Your Sunday Pal or "My future Pen Pal")

c/o The Print Shop

27209 Wolf Road 
Bay Village Ohio 44140