Postal Service for the Dead
From Obsessed With Death by Obsessed with Death Network
May 3, 2026 · 40 min · Season 1 · Episode 101
About this episode
Rob interviews Janelle Ketcher about her project Postal Service for the Dead, which encourages people to send letters to those they've lost.
In this episode, Rob speaks with Janelle Ketcher, founder of Postal Service for the Dead, a community art and grief project inviting people to send handwritten letters to those they’ve lost. Janelle shares how her mother’s illness and passing shaped her relationship with death, the origins of the project, and the emotional power of snail mail in a digital world. She also reads part of an unreleased letter, offering a glimpse into the tender, private grief people entrust to the project.
People in this episode
Host: Rob
Guest: Janelle Ketcher
Topics covered
- grief
- art
- community project
- handwritten letters
- death
- emotional expression
Keywords
- grief project
- snail mail
- loss
- community art
- handwritten letters
- death
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Postal Service for the Dead
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