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Found: Awesome kids to solve spy mystery
Read more →You know that expression “There’s a light at the end of the tunnel - and it’s a train”? That’s how we felt in November when we launched our new mystery, Spies, Lies and Serious Bad Guys. We got slammed with orders all through the holiday season. We’re finally picking ourselves up, dusting ourselves off and getting around to some of the things on our to-do list, like posting a detailed product description on our website. If you have been waiting to find out more about what exactly comes in the spy mystery, you can click here.Spies is our most challenging...
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The Answer Is Always Love
Read more →As you may or may not know, we mail all of our letters and packages on Tuesdays. And next Tuesday just happens to be Valentine’s Day. We’ve got the date circled with a big red heart and we are thinking all about love. Ok, we are trying to think all about love. We don’t know what it’s like where you live but here it’s been the grayest winter on record. It’s like a giant elephant sat its great gray butt on top of the city and won’t get up. That kind of thing weighs on a person. At a time when the...
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Important information on holiday ship dates
Read more →Due to extremely high demand, we have now filled all of our available ship dates through the end of December. You can still order a Mail Order Mystery, but the earliest available ship date is January 10. If you’d still like to give a Mail Order Mystery as a holiday gift, you can download the printable gift note from our website and give it to the child receiving the mystery. Their first installment will then ship on January 10th. Just remember, January 10th is the date the first installment will ship, not the date it will be delivered. We are...
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Gummies for Dummies
Read more →Yes we know sugar is terrible, and yes of course we are always telling our kids to eat less of it. But our kids recently found this recipe for homemade gummies that are so much fun to make and eat that we figured you might want to try it out. How to make Homemade Gummies (by the King of Random) All you need is Jello, gelatin, corn syrup and silicone ice cube trays. Back in the old days ice only came in cubes, remember? But nowadays you can make ice shaped like pretty much anything - robots, yetis, tikis,hearts, sharks...
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More excellent reviews from excellent bloggers!
Read more →The reviews for Treasure Hunt! keep on coming and they are all fantastic. “This has been one of my most favourite reviews in my five years of doing blog reviews,” says Jeanna Bellville at Momma’s Bacon. “All of the old letters, keys, maps, de-coding; it all felt so real….It’s an elaborate game, and any puzzle lover will find this highly entertaining and it’s MONTHS in the making. Impressive. Mail Order Mystery has lived up to its name and their phrase, ‘Extraordinary stories for extraordinary kids’ is something I agree with 100%” “So much excitement!” says Bethany Hankinson at Little Homeschool...
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Potential labour disruption at Canada Post
Read more →Updated August 30, 2016 As you may know, Mail Order Mystery is based in Canada, and Canada Post (which operates Canada’s national mail system) is currently in labour negotiations with the Canadian Union of Postal Workers. Both Canada Post and the union are in a legal strike/lockout position. On August 25, the postal workers union issued a 72 hour strike notice and announced that they'd begin rotating job action consisting of a ban on overtime work. The start of that job action has twice been pushed back. And the union claims that it will have no impact on mail delivery at this time. Meanwhile negotiations...