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Why We’re Not Doing a Black Friday Sale (Again) This Year
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
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...
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Stress-Free Shipping and Shopping with Our Handy Holiday Gift Guide
Good news, fellow frantic holiday shoppers: we have a new shipping option on our website. You can now select “All In One Box” as a delivery option for your Mail Order Mystery. If you order a Mail Order Mystery as a holiday gift you can order now and we can ship it as soon as next Thursday. You can stash the box in the gift cupboard, present the first letter whenever you wish, and hand out the installments at your own pace. This is great for gift-givers who like the peace of mind of having all gifts accounted for and ticked off...
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Experience Gifts the Whole Family Can Do Together
The season of gift-giving draws rapidly closer and we face the same dilemmas we face every year. They go more or less like this: The kids are getting older and their lists grow shorter; what the heck are we going to get them? We spent most of the year tossing clutter and how can we undo all of that hard work by bringing piles of stuff back into the house? How are we going to make the holidays about family and not just piles of stuff?The answer? Experience gifts. We love experience gifts, for ourselves, for our kids, and best of all,...
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Treasure Hunt Now Available in French!
Bonjour! We have some great news. Our best-selling and best-rated Mail Order Mystery - Treasure Hunt - is now available in French. That’s right! En français. How cool is that? Missive Mystère, our sister company in France, has just opened for business with a French translation of Treasure Hunt, called “Le Trésor Perdu”. It is available for 59 Euros plus another 15 Euros to ship to Canada or the US. (That works out to about $108 CAD or $82 USD, in case you were wondering.) Après des mois à fabriquer des parchemins, dénicher des clés spéciales, inventer des codes secrets et...
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Mail Order Mystery + School = LOVE
When we created Mail Order Mystery we had in mind an experience for families, for a kid or small group of sibs in a single household. But life is full of surprises, and one particularly happy surprise is that Mail Order Mysteries can, and often are, successfully adapted to a large group in a classroom setting. We are constantly sending out mysteries addressed to “Miss X’s Classroom”, or “Mr. Y’s Grade 4s” and so on. Teachers order mysteries for their classrooms, parents order mysteries for their kids’ classrooms, and one principal even got the school council behind the project and ordered a...