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Mystery Mastery: Check Out These Reviews From Quarantine!
Read more →We were positive that Mail Order Mysteries would make fantastic activities for kids stuck at home. We know this because we have been cooped up with bored, irritable and bewildered kids for months now. But it means everything to us when we hear it from you. And you agree! Mail Order Mysteries do make fantastic activities for kids stuck at home!Check out these excellent reviews: Best sibling bonding⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐I admit, I ordered this as a desperation activity in quarantine. My daughters (12 and 10) loved it. It was engaging, age appropriate, and fun. We ordered the whole kit in one package...
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Summer Learning Can Be Fun
Read more →Well, we made it. “School” is wrapping up and so ends our first collective experiment with what we call “distance learning”. Distance learning worked better for some families than others, but no matter how well each kid did (or didn’t) manage with “school” this year, these months have been tough for many of us. Now that summer is here, we can look forward to more outside time, more freedom and more play. But things are not the same, especially for kids. Seeing friends from six feet apart is a start but we still have a long, strange summer ahead of us....
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Power Down the Screens and Fire up the Imaginations!
Read more →Mail Order Mysteries are screen-free experiences, and now more than ever we celebrate our decision to make them that way. These last months there have been no escaping screens. School is screens, our social lives are screens, our entertainment is screens, our babysitters are screens.The one exception to our screen free mission - and we feel it is worth taking a moment to explain - is our espionage-themed Spies, Lies and Serious Bad Guys. Over the course of the mystery kids search for three digit codes, which they can enter into a basic website to get their next clue. But we...
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A Box Full of Mystery: What’s Not to Love?
Read more →We know that kids love getting letters in the mail. So do we. But like they say, trust is the cornerstone of love. And if we can’t trust the overloaded and backlogged postal system to get your Mail Order Mystery letters to you on time, in the correct order, then we won’t risk sending letters in the mail. This is why we have decided for now to make our only shipping option “all in one box”, which means we pack up all six installments of each mystery and send it in one parcel, with tracking information so you can look it up...
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We’re Back and Ready to Ship Mysteries!
Read more →We have great news for squirrelly kids, exasperated parents and distance-discouraged grandparents, uncles and aunts. Mail Order Mystery is back in business! After closing our doors for two months to protect the health and safety of our employees, all of our mysteries are in stock and available. We are, of course, proceeding with caution. Workplaces have changed and so has the world. We have made many adjustments to the way we do things and so for now at least, this is our “new normal” at Mail Order Mystery: SHIPPING OPTIONS: For now the only shipping method we have available is...
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COVID-19 Update: Mail Order Mystery Temporarily Closed for Business
Read more →Mail Order Mystery is located in the Canadian province of Ontario, which is doing what it can to help check the spread of COVID-19 by shutting down all non-essential businesses. Though your kids may disagree, Mail Order Mystery is not an essential business. So we have temporarily closed up shop and suspended sales until further notice. With the situation around COVID-19 so uncertain, we are unable to predict when we may be able to operate again. Please make sure to sign up for our newsletter so we can let you know as soon as we have any information about when...