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Stuck at Home for Spring Break? We’ve Got an Adventure for You!
Read more →Nowhere to go this spring break? Stuck at home with nothing to do? Let us bring the adventure to you.We design our mysteries for kids age 8 - 13 but they are fantastic for the whole family, especially families who have been cooped up together for the past year.Are you looking for something mysterious and fun to do? We have four mysteries to choose from. In our espionage-themed Spies Lies and Serious Bad Guys, you discover that you have been enrolled in a top secret spy school. Training has just begun when you are called upon to help locate a missing...
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Need a Plan For Valentine’s Day?
Read more →Valentine’s Day is supposed to be about romance, right? Candle-light, flowers, a dinner out...But this continues to be a time of adjusting expectations. Dinner will be at home this year. We think maybe we have some candles in the cupboard, but we don’t even know if flower shops are open. Ok sure, maybe dinner is not so romantic with the kids at the table. But there is more to love than romance and we are happy to share a fancy dinner with our kids. In fact, this Valentine’s Day, we are going out of our way to show the kids...
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COVID-19 Shipping Update
Read more →COVID-19 continues to mess with everything, in large and small ways, and we have had to make some changes to the way we do things here at Mail Order Mystery. SHIPPING DELAYS Both USPS and Canada Post are experiencing delays in the delivery of packages due to unprecedented volume and limited employee availability and other operational limitations due to COVID-19. The situation has improved considerably since the beginning of the new year, but we are still seeing fairly regular delays that range from a few additional days in transit to delays of a week or more. All of our mysteries...
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Our Mysteries Are the Perfect Last Minute Gift
Read more →As parents, we know this is a hectic time of year. Despite best intentions it’s easy to fall behind on holiday gift shopping. Especially in the middle of a pandemic.So just a reminder that a Mail Order Mystery is a perfect last-minute gift. At this point orders sent out with standard shipping likely won’t arrive before Christmas. But after you place an order, you can download a special gift note that you can print out (or even email) letting a child know that they’re about to receive a Mail Order Mystery. Give them the note as a gift and their mystery should...
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Holiday Shipping Dates
Read more →We are now past the dates we recommended ordering by for delivery before Christmas. But a Mail Order Mystery still makes a great last minute gift. After you place an order, you can download a special gift note that you can print out (or even email) letting a child know that they’re about to receive a Mail Order Mystery.And because we’re currently shipping all mysteries “All in One Box” you get all of the installments at once so they can be doled out as quickly (or slowly) as you choose. ------------------------- These are the dates we recommend that you order by so that your...
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Keep Family Connected With a Mystery
Read more →As we head into this holiday season many of us are feeling the toll of living through 2020. It’s been a tough year. We miss our pals. A lot of us are choosing not to travel, many of us are back into some version of lockdown. Other than the people we live with, we may not get to be with family this holiday season.For so many of us, the best part of the holidays is being together and we are all doing our best to stay close any we can. It makes us happy when we see that families are...