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Why We're NOT Having a Black Friday Sale (Again This Year)
Read more →It's become a bit of a holiday tradition here at Mail Order Mystery. We're not having a Black Friday or Cyber Monday sale this year. In fact, we've never had one. We create personalized experiences for kids that take time to prepare. We don’t want to compromise our commitment to creating great experiences for kids in order to jump into the feeding frenzy of sales, competing to be heard above the noise. So you won't see us artificially increasing our prices so we can look like we are offering great deals for one weekend of the year. We won't make you buy a "bundle" with...
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Canada Post Strike
Read more →This information only applies to orders being shipped to Canadian addresses. Orders to the United States are not affected. On November 15, the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW) started a national strike. This means that Canada Post’s operations are currently shut down. On December 13 the government asked the Canadian Industrial Relations Board to potentially order striking CUPW members back to work. We are waiting to see what happens. But even if employees return to work, we expect it may take several weeks for mail delivery to return to normal. The impact on the arrival of our mysteries will depend on which...
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Made By Humans #9 - Meet the People Who Print the Magic ✨
Read more →This is Martin. He is a pressman and one of the real life humans at Moveable who print all of the excellent posters, maps, magazines, booklets and clue cards that make our mysteries so intriguing and fun. Over the last months, we have been celebrating our designers, artists and illustrators, our team members who make the pirate maps, answer the phones, respond to your emails and seal the envelopes with wax. They are all actual, real-life human beings. They are not robots, they are not generated by AI, and they cannot - and will not - be replaced by computers. This week,...
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How to Order as a Holiday Gift 🎁
Read more →If you are planning to order a Mail Order Mystery as a holiday gift we have three words for you: DO NOT WAIT. Mail Order Mysteries are personalized and packaged with care. We only have so many hands and we won’t take more orders than we can personalize and ship. So if we hit the limit of what we are able to process and package, we will have to put up the “sold out” sign until we catch up. And in the past some of our mysteries have sold out as we got closer to Christmas. Your first choice is picking...
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2024 Holiday Shipping Dates
Read more →If you are planning to order a Mail Order Mystery as a holiday gift we want to help you time its arrival. There are two ways to have your mystery experience delivered. You can have it packed up all together and shipped in one box, or you can have the mystery sent as separate installments mailed once a week for six weeks. ALL IN ONE BOX All six installments will be packed together in a single shipment that is fully tracked. Every mystery we send out is personalized, so it does take some time from when you place your order to when...
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Discover Fun in Learning Again! 📚
Read more →We know the transition back to school can be tough. We're already tired of the fights about bedtime and homework. But back to school doesn't have to mean back to the old grind. Instead, think of it as an opportunity to get kids excited about learning. There's no better time to make reading, learning and problem-solving fun than now. Mail Order Mysteries are six week long adventures of the imagination that can spark all manner of learning and creativity. Solve clues, crack codes and learn all about the history of medieval knights, life on board a pirate ship, geography, sharks,...