More goodies from a Bangkok mystery package...

Movie Magnets

When you go to the movies in Bangkok, the cinema will give you, along with your ticket, a fridge magnet advertising a future release. This particular horror film was very popular (this kid looks mopey and dilated).

Tuk-Tuk Taxi

When in Bankok, the Tuk-Tuk is your taxi:


Our mailer defined the tuk-tuk as a "3-wheeled taxi, always good for a scary ride and an argument about the fare."

This toy Tuk-Tuk must the Barbie version...

Bangkok package

Who doesn't love a good package from overseas? This one's Thai-rific:

The image below is a pack of Durian Chips. The Durian is that freaky Southeast Asian plant that tastes amazing, yet smells so bad (like rotted flesh, to be exact), it's banned from public places such as Hotels and airports. Which is probably why they've got signs up in public places like this....

And apparently they make chips out of it:

Note from the sender:
"Durian. Mmmmm. Banned from many enclosed spaces because of the rotting-meat smell, this "king of fruits" is highly prized. The chips are great, but no smell."

Mystery Mail: It's real "EDUTAINMENT."

Takin' the Mystery to the streets: Amsterdam & Brussels

Mystery Mail administrators will embark on a campaign & "fact-finding mission" to Amsterdam and Brussels in late March. We will canvas European cafes and galleries with Mystery Mail flyers to help with some of this European momentum that's been building.

As an added bonus, we'll be dipping our administrative fingers into the Mystery Mail participant pot and picking out a recipient for a surprise European mystery package!!

So now's the time to mail out those packages you've been sitting on (I'm looking at you, Northern & Southern Californians!). Eligible recipients will be picked on March 21st.

Mystery Mail Factoids...

We're getting quite a few overseas Mystery Mail participants. Here are some interesting no-no's for those of us in the U.S. mailing packages to Scotland and England:

NO:

• Goods made in foreign prisons.
  
• Horror comics and matrices.
  
• Obscene articles, prints, paintings, cards, films, videotapes, etc. (I wonder who exactly gets to decide what’s “obscene” at the post office?)
  
• Seal skins except those from an accepted source.
  
• Switchblade knives.

Remember, check out the USPS website (link is to the right) before you mail.

The Mystery Mail "You Give Good Package" Award

We've been hearing about some pretty nifty packages.

If you've ever seen the Mystery Mail office, you know that Mystery Mail is kind of an awards junkie. The walls are adorned with silly certificates for things like "excellence in hating Becky Dodd" (displaying our college diploma kind of isn't our thing).

This is probably why we've now come up with the semi-annual “You give good package” Mystery Mailer award. The winner will receive a special gift, along with a certificate praising their expert ability at giving "great package." Check your email boxes for additional info.

Good luck!