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Vote Now! Help Us Pick a Winner in Our Photo Contest.
We are over the moon with the results of our first ever photo contest. You have got to check out these pics. And these are just a few of the entries! They are so unbearably cute, so seriously determined, so silly, so fun and so focused that we can hardly stand it. This is Mail Order Mystery history in the making, and we are so happy that you can be a part of it. There is no way we would ever be able to choose a winner on our own, which is why we are giving each of...
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Enter Our Photo Contest, Win Cool Prizes
Here at Mail Order Mystery HQ we love seeing photos of kids working away at their mysteries. Those looks of determination, wonder and joy are so rewarding to see. People send us so many amazing photos, or post them on social media, and we keep thinking, wouldn’t it be great to see a whole bunch of those fantastic photos, all at the same time, in the same place? Wouldn’t it be great to have a photo contest? So let’s have a photo contest! Send us pictures of your extraordinary little sleuths working on their Mail Order Mysteries. We want to see...
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Curious About Our New Detective Mystery?
Maybe you've seen our new detective mystery The Case of the Missing Bigfoot. And maybe you've wondered what it's like for young sleuths trying to crack the case. Well, we think this wonderful review from This West Coast Mommy captures the experience really well. This West Coast Mommy and her kids have also done Treasure Hunt! (our pirate mystery) and Enchanted Slumber (our fairy tale mystery) and loved them both. So they have a great sense of how our new detective mystery compares. (They love it!) And we absolutely love all the photos of the young sleuths as they analyze “crime scene” photos, fingerprint reports, interview transcripts, ciphers, clues and map...
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Order Now: 4 Ship Dates Left in December
What the heck?! It’s December already. If you are planning to order a Mail Order Mystery as a holiday gift there is still time. We ship every Thursday so that means there are four Thursdays left in December to pick from.December 6 or 13 is your best bet if you want your mystery to start arriving before Christmas. If you choose December 20 or December 27 as your ship date your mystery should start arriving shortly after Christmas. You can download a printable gift note to give on Christmas morning.And of course if you’re interested you can buy a gift tie-in for...
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Need a Gift to Go with Your Mystery?
Mail Order Mysteries make excellent holiday gifts for so many reasons: they are creative, imaginative, fun, tech-free and they keep on coming for six weeks. That means weeks of adventure long after the Lego has been built and the robot dog has been abandoned under the couch. But we also know that if you're giving a Mail Order Mystery this time of year you may want a present you can wrap up. We offer a printable gift note. Or some people choose to get their first installment sent before Christmas so they can give that as a present (see our holiday FAQ for more...
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Why We're Not Having a Black Friday Sale (Again This Year)
Yes we know Black Friday/Cyber Monday are coming up and yes, we know, everywhere you look it’s “Sale! Sale! Sale!”. Again, this year, we want to let you know that we will not be participating in the arms race of discounts. When we launched Mail Order Mystery we made some decisions that we stand by now. We use only high quality items in Mail Order Mysteries. We personalize all of the letters we send out to kids, which means we fulfill on demand rather than mass-packing or drop-shipping. We hand-fabricate many of the items ourselves. We do not cut corners....