News
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Why We Aren’t Doing a Black Friday Sale (Again)
Read more →If you've been following us for a while, you probably won't be surprised to hear that we're not doing a Black Friday or Cyber Monday sale this year. We've never done one. And we don't plan to start now. Mail Order Mystery is a family-run business. 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, compete to be heard above the noise, or artificially increase our prices so we can look like we are offering great...
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Looking For Experience Gifts?
Read more →We love experience gifts. They are great when you are feeling adventurous and creative about gift giving, but they are also great when you are out of ideas. If you’ve got a tween in your life you know what we are talking about. Toy store shelves are no longer heaped with plastic potential like they once were. A shiny truck or fancy doll just won’t cut it. And for sure, kids love video games, but are they sucking the life out of your relationship with them? They are in our house, that’s for sure. An experience gift, though? That’s something...
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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 there are two ways to have it delivered. You can have your mystery 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: The advantage to ordering "All in One Box" is that we will ship it out as soon as we can, usually within 7 days. This means that in this uncertain year of toy shortages and supply chain issues, you will know that you have...
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A Cautionary Tale...
Read more →Here at Mail Order Mystery it drives us crazy to see the holiday displays going up in stores as kids go back to school. We have always believed in the rule that Christmas shopping should commence after Halloween. As parents it only seems fair to get through one big kid holiday before you have to start planning the next one. But we are also realists, so we believe that rules are made to be broken when necessary. And if you've been reading the news lately, you probably already know that this is not the year to be waiting until after Halloween to start your...
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Back to School Doesn't Have to Mean Back to the Old Grind
Read more →As we enter what feels like month number nine million of the pandemic, a lot of us are struggling with the uncertainties of another school year. Kids have bounced around between classrooms, virtual learning and homeschooling, and it's been a tough eighteen months for them. Getting them back into school routines can be a challenge with the endless disruption and distraction. But back to school, no matter what form it takes, can be an opportunity to get kids excited about learning. There's no better time to make reading, learning and problem-solving fun than now, before the homework battles set in. Mail Order Mysteries...
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Send Weekly Is Back! 📬
Read more →We know how much kids love getting mail. We love it too. But for the past year, we've only been able to offer our "All in One Box" shipping option where we package up all six mystery installments in one box and send them out together. Predictable mail delivery was one of the casualties of the pandemic. Mail Order Mysteries are stories that are told through a series of letters and it is important that these letters arrive in a timely manner and in the correct order. For the past year we haven't been confident that would happen, so we temporarily stopped offering our...