Some things
are hidden.
Not from you.
The Society of Unseen Things recruits Noticers: children who spot the missing sock, the remote in the wrong room and the smudge nobody admits to — and write it down.
Recruit a NoticerA letter a week for ages 5–12 · from NZ$14.80 a month
A low-tech operation. Letters you print, cards by post.
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A real letter every week
Printed at home and delivered by you, so it arrives from nowhere.
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Missions and ciphers
Ten minutes in the garden with a pencil. A line of cipher at the foot of the page. A report, in writing, sealed.
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A record of service
A service record that fills up mission by mission — a waypoint coloured in, or on Premium a sticker on card stock. Every six months the Society reads it and writes to say so.
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The catalogue
Real printed trading cards from the Society’s catalogue. On Premium, ten come in the parcel every quarter.
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A Noticer’s duties
Count what has gone. Note where the remote turned up. Write it down and send it in. The Mischief hates being noticed.
How it works
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Recruitment
You choose a codename, an age band and a few interests. Never the child’s real name.
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Dispatch
A letter a week arrives in your account, on one sheet of A4. You print it and put it where it will be found.
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The report
Your Noticer counts, looks and writes back. The next letter has read the reply, and says so.
For grandparents
& parents
A sighting record is the Society’s own drawing, sent out to be coloured in. Send the finished sheet back and, once the Archive accepts it, it is printed as a real catalogue card: one comes back to your Noticer, and the rest go out to other Noticers. The colouring becomes the Society’s; the fridge and the album stay yours.
A grandparent can run it from the other end of the country. The letters go to whichever adult handles them, and so does everything the Archive posts.
Made in Auckland by a family that did this for real first.
- A letter a week from your own printer, from NZ$14.80 a month
- A parcel every quarter: ten cards, the service records, the stickers, the envelope seals, and room for three packs
- More cards any time, by the pack of ten
- A codename, an age band and a few interests. Never a real name
- Not taken with it? Your money back
Keep noticing things.
We may be watching.
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Where it was found
Illustration
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Coloured in. Now in the catalogue.
Illustration
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One sheet of A4, home printer
Questions, answered
Who is the Society for?
Noticers aged 5 and over. The letters are written for ages 5 to 12: a five-year-old shares the reading with a grown-up, a ten-year-old takes the cipher off to their room. What becomes of a Noticer who grows up is a question the Archive has never answered in writing.
How does a letter reach my Noticer?
You print it. Every letter arrives in your own account as one sheet of A4, and one of the child’s own adults seals it and puts it where it will be found — the doormat, the letterbox, in with the ordinary post. Every letter goes to you, and you decide how and when it is found.
How often?
A letter a week. Each one carries the story on and answers what your Noticer sent back — the count, the sketch, the question at the bottom.
Is anything actually posted?
The cards are. The Archive packs a parcel once each quarter is paid and posts it from Auckland — no delivery day is promised: ten catalogue cards, the service records printed in colour on card stock, the stickers that go on them, envelope seals and the agent case file. The first one is the welcome kit; wait for it before printing the first letter, so the record and the first card go in with it. Each parcel has room for three packs of cards from the shop in the app — and a pack bought on its own is cards plus postage, posted when it is packed. The Archive chooses what fills a parcel, and a card in it may have begun as another Noticer’s colouring — or as your own recruit’s.
Can we stop?
Any time. The letters run to the end of the month or quarter you have paid for, and anything already printed or posted is yours to keep — the Society does not recall its correspondence. If your child isn’t taken with it, your billing page has a button that asks for the money back: you have thirty days from the first payment to ask; the letters stop, you post the cards back, and we refund your first payment when they arrive. How the guarantee works.
Is it safe?
Every letter goes to you, and you decide how and when your child sees it. We hold a codename, an age band and a few interests — never a child’s real name. The envelopes we do post go to you, at your own address, and the cards inside carry the codename. How it works behind the curtain is set out plainly in Safety for Parents.