Hi, it's Joanne from the MintKeep packing room, and congratulations on your MintKeep!

Your box is open on my bench, and I really shouldn't hold a box up like this. But please read this before I tape it shut, because of something I learned in my mother's house...

Mom is 78 and lives alone in the farmhouse I grew up in. Last fall, the mice found her. She heard them in the wall behind her bed at 2 a.m., and in the morning there were droppings on the counter where she rolls out the pie crust for Sunday dinner.

So I plugged a MintKeep into her kitchen and one into the basement, where they were coming up. That's the MintKeep you just ordered, and it does exactly its job. Since then she's slept straight through.

But an old farmhouse isn't built of ordinary rooms. Mom's kitchen is one long room from the back door, where the dog eats, to the pantry at the far end. The basement is one open room under the whole house. Those are the rooms where mice get in, and the rooms where the mint has the most air to fill. So every morning she still walked down to the pantry end of that long kitchen to check, just in case.

That's what the one standing next to your box is for.

The MintKeep you ordered warms its mint out slowly, steady all night. This one mists it out in a fine spray that carries the mint to the far end of a big room, to the pantry and the corners where they run. A button on the front sets how much it sends out, so you can turn it up in the room where you hear them most.

It's called MintKeep Max.

Both of Mom's MintKeeps are Maxes now, one in the kitchen and one in the basement. The mint reaches the pantry end now, and last Sunday she rolled out her crust without checking the counter first.

Misting the mint takes more parts than warming it, so the Max costs more to make. After the launch, swapping a MintKeep for a Max will run $69 a unit. But it isn't for sale yet: the first ones just came in, and its website and ads are months away.

So I asked my manager to let the people whose boxes are still on my bench switch first. She said yes, for this first batch only.

But you're not paying that $69. Nobody has spent a dollar on ads for the Max yet, and you're already here, so that money comes off your price.

Every MintKeep in your box becomes a MintKeep Max, for just $29.95 more each, more than 55% off the upgrade. For this first batch, that's ridiculously low, and I mean it.

But I can only swap them while your box is open. Once it's taped, it ships as you ordered it, and the Max isn't sold anywhere until the launch.

When they come, plug each one in where you've heard them, and look at the counter the next morning. If you're not happy for any reason, you get every penny back within 90 days.

If your house is old like Mom's, the rooms where they get in are the big ones too: the kitchen, the basement. I want your mornings to start the way Mom's do now: coffee first, and no checking the counter.

So choose the Max below, and I swap every MintKeep in your box for a Max today. Or keep the MintKeeps you ordered with the other button, and your box ships as it is.

God bless, and sleep well.

Joanne