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Burying Treasure in the Backyard & Fear of Bigfoot: Our Fave Reviews
Read more →We love hearing from you. We love it when your kids send us the questionnaires they fill out when they are accepted to spy school. We love it when your kids send us letters with answers to the riddles from Smaul the Troll in our Enchanted Slumber mystery. We love it when your kids write us letters telling us not to trust certain characters in the mysteries. We love it when you post photos of your kids solving their mysteries. And we really love it when you write to tell us how much your kids love their mysteries. This fall we...
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Only 2 Ship Dates Left Before Christmas!
Read more →The clock is ticking down for holiday shopping, but it’s not too late to order a personalized Mail Order Mystery experience for the 8 to 13 year-old kids you love. We ship every Thursday and this week’s shipment is full up. But our mystery elves are standing by to print, package and mail your mysteries on these holiday dates: December 19thDecember 24th (we ship a few days early that week as the 26th is a holiday). Depending on where you live, mail can take between two and ten business days to arrive. If you are worried your mystery won’t quite make it for Christmas,...
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Looking for a Great Gift to Tie in with Your Mail Order Mystery?
Read more →Mail Order Mysteries are great gifts for those of you who don’t want to buy kids a lot of stuff, especially if you are the one tripping on that stuff. Mail Order Mysteries are low-impact on shelf-space and high impact on kids’ imaginations.But the stakes are high on Christmas morning and you may be looking for a bit more stuff to wrap up and put under the tree. If you are buying a Mail Order Mystery and you are looking for a gift that ties in to the mystery you have chosen, we have lots of great stuff at the Mystery Emporium....
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Order Now: 3 Ship Dates Left Before Christmas!!!
Read more →Are you looking for the perfect kid gift? It’s not too late to order a personalized Mail Order Mystery experience for the 8 to 13 year-old kids you love. We ship every Thursday and our mystery elves are standing by to print, package and mail your mysteries on any one of these holiday dates: December 12thDecember 19thDecember 24th (we ship a few days early that week as the 26th is a holiday)When you order your mystery we give you the choice of two shipping methods on our website: “Send Weekly” or “All In One Box”. If you choose “Send Weekly” we mail one installment a week for six...
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Why We’re Not Doing a Black Friday Sale (Again) This Year
Read more →We can hardly hear ourselves think over the Black Friday hullaballoo. Everywhere you look it’s “Sale! Sale! Sale!” As business owners and as holiday shoppers we find it all super stressful. And so this year we are doing what we do every year: nothing. We choose to opt out of the Black Friday/Cyber Monday arms race of discounts. When we started Mail Order Mystery four years ago we made some decisions that we still stand by today. We use only high quality items in Mail Order Mysteries. We personalize all of the letters we send out to kids, which means...
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Eight Reasons NOT to Wait to Order Your Mail Order Mystery
Read more →We don’t want to alarm you, but Christmas and Hanukkah are five weeks away. You are on it, of course. But there is a fine line between being on it and racing to the mall on December 24th to throw a random armload of toys into a shopping cart. So here are eight reasons why you should NOT wait to order your Mail Order Mystery. Mail Order Mysteries come in the mail, so unless you would like your mystery gift to start in January (nothing wrong with that), you may want to choose a date for us to begin sending your...