WOW never thought about that....I am done surprising my teens, but most every trip I had to work overtime to make it a surprise....that very morning! A few times it was a teacher I had told in private about the surprise who could not keep a secret....told a counselor, counselor suspicious that an all A student was skipping school.....sigh.....he was bummed she called him down to office. Once a mailman came to door because I filed a stop mail thing, he had a customer who had been scammed by relatives and stopped her mail, he saw me home and wanted to make sure things were ok.....I had always stopped it a couple days prior in past with no interaction....it was very nice of him to worry about me, but it almost blew my cover, one child was home for a 1/2 day.....phew. I actually packed their things and hid the cases.....boys not into clothing don't notice, and since it was off season even less chance of noticing shorts missing in the winter!
If you go into the magic band area on your mde account, it gives the option of declining a magic band.
WOW never thought about that....I am done surprising my teens, but most every trip I had to work overtime to make it a surprise....that very morning! A few times it was a teacher I had told in private about the surprise who could not keep a secret....told a counselor, counselor suspicious that an all A student was skipping school.....sigh.....he was bummed she called him down to office. Once a mailman came to door because I filed a stop mail thing, he had a customer who had been scammed by relatives and stopped her mail, he saw me home and wanted to make sure things were ok.....I had always stopped it a couple days prior in past with no interaction....it was very nice of him to worry about me, but it almost blew my cover, one child was home for a 1/2 day.....phew. I actually packed their things and hid the cases.....boys not into clothing don't notice, and since it was off season even less chance of noticing shorts missing in the winter!
Have great fun and let us know if you are successful in circumventing the box!
I started doing it when my oldest would be too excited over a week prior and be up at night interrupting the rest of the families sleep.....so basically they knew they were going sometime, because Santa usually brought them a park ticket....but the when was always different. 
We have had it where the shipping notification comes a day or two after I received the "box". I think the last time or two we went may have been timed correctly where the notice came first so they may have updated the notification system. And I have to agree that the box typically has no mention of Disney.Maybe maybe not. Usually they arrive about 2-3 weeks out but some have reported getting them a little sooner. They don't ship until after 30 days out because you can customize them up until 30 days out. I think you will be fine and also the box comes in a plain brown box and does not say from Disney it was like some Initials DMD or something like that. Lol. You will get notified when It ships so you do get a heads up usually.
