What We Found in an Amazon Mystery Box: Postum & More — April 30, 2026

Some boxes come in swinging with big-ticket items. This one came in steady — the kind of everyday essentials that disappear fast once they hit the floor here in Hot Springs. Not flashy. Just genuinely useful stuff, sealed and brand-new, stacked up in a single $55 Amazon Mystery Box.

Six Jars of Postum Caffeine-Free Instant Original Flavor — The Quiet Star of This Box

Postum has a dedicated following, and finding six 8 oz jars at $12.27 each retail is exactly the kind of thing that makes a box worth hauling in. Gluten-free, kosher, non-GMO, made from wheat and molasses — people who want it, want it. Six jars at $12.27 each is $73.62 in retail value sitting right there.

Alongside that, we pulled seven Optix 55 Gel Lens Cleaner Kits — each one a 16 oz two-bottle set with microfiber cloths, safe for AR coatings, screens, and eyeglasses. Seven of them. At $12.00 each retail, that's $84 worth of lens care in one shot.

Ten USB Lightning Chargers for iPhone rounded out the tech side. Basic, yes, but the kind of thing people grab without overthinking — and at our price point, they go fast.

We also found four sets of E-Senior 30pc Bronze Wall Mounted Coat Hooks, each pack coming with 60 screws and enough hardware to outfit an entryway, closet, or mudroom. Four packs. That's 120 hooks total if you're keeping count. And one pack of Swisspers Premium Cotton Rounds — 100 chlorine-free, hypoallergenic pads — tucked in to round things out.

Plus dozens more bin-labeled items heading to our store bins. The full haul clocked in at $645.48 estimated retail. Not a barnburner, but a solid, sensible box — and those have their own kind of appeal.