Greetings from the International Headquarters of Information - We manage magic in every department

Mail Order Mystery is a bustling place. We enroll kids in spy school, send them on noble missions, enlist them as junior detectives, help them find long-lost treasure and keep a close eye on their time traveling activity so they don’t wreak havoc on the space-time continuum. 

 

This means we have a lot of letters to manage, and we have a number of departments to manage them. If you look closely at the return address stamps of the letters we send you, you can find names like:

The International Headquarters of Information: This department oversees the pirate-themed mystery we call Treasure Hunt!. We handle all correspondence related to the whereabouts of your kids’ missing pirate treasure and the double-crossers who may be trying to steal it. 

 

The Department of Outlandish Affairs: Correspondence from the Enchanted Slumber mystery comes from the village post office at the edge of the Never Changing Forest, but all letters are routed through the Department of Outlandish Affairs. This is where Eager the Ogre keeps a close eye on things. His job is to find unsuspecting heroes (i.e. your kids) to help his cousin Smaul the Troll complete a noble mission.

 

The Department of Lost and Not Yet Found: You may or may not know about a renowned organization called SHOW ME - the Secret Headquarters of Wonder and Magic Explained - but they have a branch dedicated to the study and protection of hidden animals. They call their group “SHOW ME the Cryptid”, and while it is possible to correspond with them directly, most of their letters are routed through the offices of Detectives Mulberry and Perdu. SHOW ME has enlisted their services, who in turn have enlisted the help of some junior detectives (i.e. your kids) to solve The Case of the Missing Bigfoot.

 

S.H.O.E. aka the Secret Headquarters of Espionage: These guys need the help of highly qualified junior agents (your kids!) to complete their spy training and help solve a case called Spies, Lies and Serious Bad Guys, but this department is so top secret they relocate every six months. We don’t actually know where they are. Sorry. 

 

U.N.S.T.U.C. aka the United Network of Spacetime Travel Unravel Corrections: These time police can help you out with a mystery we call Escape the Master Loop. Theoretically this department is located at our headquarters, but in reality they could be anywhere, anytime. They’ve got eyes on all of you, by which we mean your past self, your present self and your future self. So be careful! Do not drop your camera in Leonardo da Vinci’s studio! Check your backpack for baby dinos! And do not, we repeat, DO NOT mess with the Titanic. Again.