Welcome to the VerbaPost Blog
Date: December 23, 2025
Author: The VerbaPost Team
Welcome to my new publication. Here I intend to discuss the importance of physical correspondence in a digital age, share tips for recording oral histories, and post updates about the VerbaPost platform.
Why I Built This
I like to walk the Greenways in and around Nashville. I also like to get letters.
I remember when I was in the Army, getting a letter was the highlight of the day—sometimes the highlight of the week. Getting a letter that had perfume on it could keep me going for seven days straight.
Anyway, I was looking for a way to write a letter while walking on the greenway. That was the impetus for VerbaPost: Record a voice note, come back, transcribe it, edit it, and send it out as a physical letter.
The Family Archive
After getting some traction with standard letters, I started thinking about two very underserved markets for physical mail.
The first is the Family History letter. Some of my mother's family actually descends from the Oneida community in New York. Back in the 90s, one of my mother's cousins put together a family history and mailed it out to all her cousins. This artifact is important to my mother and me, and it will be handed down to my daughter.
The End of Life Letter
The other market is the "End of Life" letter. This is a sensitive topic that is better handled by Googling the Stanford Letter Project, but I thought this was important enough to build a product around. I wanted to make this available even to those who can no longer hold a pen.
I'll write more on all of these topics later, but thank you for being here and thank you for starting this journey with me. I hope you get many good letters in return for the ones you write here.