Letterboxing USA - Yahoo Groups Archive

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July 2007

National Parks are nice

Started by cliffordholm (cliffordholm@yahoo.com) | 10 messages | First message: 2007-07-16 | Last message: 2007-07-23
This is a responce to the "why can't they be nicer?" series of posts. I feel that National Parks have gone out of their way to be nice to letterboxers. I'm probably stating common knowledge here...

Birdcraft Letterbox in Fairfield, CT has been replaced & updated

Started by JEM Heist (jem_heist@yahoo.com) | 1 message | First message: 2007-07-15
Just a quick note that we have replaced our previously missing Birdcraft Letterbox (originally planted in 2004) in Fairfield CT with a newly designed stamp......

"We Live and Breathe Letterboxing"

Started by Mark Pepe (mjpepe1@comcast.net) | 1 message | First message: 2007-07-13
It sure looks like 2008 is shaping up to be a very special boxing year! Mark PS. On our calendar as well! -----Original Message----- From: letterbox-usa@yahoogroups.com...

Cross Post: TENTING TONIGHT--MOVED

Started by connfederate (connfederate@yahoo.com) | 1 message | First message: 2007-07-13
Please be advised that I had to move the War of the Rebellion: Tenting Tonight on the Old Camp Ground Lb. I had inadvertently planted on private property. (There is a gap in the "No Tresspassing"...

“We Live and Breathe Letterboxing”

Started by (ThreeHearts429@aol.com) | 2 messages | First message: 2007-07-13 | Last message: 2007-07-13
>>>Der Mad Stamper and Friends would like to cordially invite you to a >>>weekend jam-packed full of letterboxing madness and mayhem to help >>>celebrate the ten year anniversary of our beloved...

“We Live and Breathe Letterboxing”

Started by Der Mad Stamper (Letterboxr@aol.com) | 4 messages | First message: 2007-07-13 | Last message: 2007-07-15
Der Mad Stamper and Friends would like to cordially invite you to a weekend jam-packed full of letterboxing madness and mayhem to help celebrate the ten year anniversary of our beloved hobby! We...

Gone Garage Saling

Started by halesangel2222 (halesangel2222@yahoo.com) | 2 messages | First message: 2007-07-11 | Last message: 2007-07-11
We are having a garage sale and I have caved a special stamp for it. It is limited to Fri. July 13 & Sat. July 14. The sale is in Grove Port (Columbus area)Ohio. Check out the details on AtlasQuest....

Coconuts Have Migrated...

Started by Scott Farley (placedenfert1@yahoo.com) | 1 message | First message: 2007-07-09
All, As of July 7, the Migrating Coconuts Hitchhiker (part of the MPHG series) is keeping Sir Robin's Minstrels company. Happy Letterboxing! Lock, Shock and Barrel (formerly Pig-Tags-Chic)

NEXT hitchhiker by dregan

Started by tworstaggering (tworstaggering@yahoo.com) | 3 messages | First message: 2007-07-08 | Last message: 2007-07-09
I recently found and gathered up a hitchhiker called NEXT by dregan & BRI [I think of Pennsylvania]. It was originally released in 2003, but was at someone's house for a year [broken leg] and then...

Why couldn't they be nicer about it?

Started by team_new_hampshire (gingerbreadjunk@yahoo.com) | 8 messages | First message: 2007-07-08 | Last message: 2007-07-10
i had just received a note from someone whom went searching for one of my boxes in a state park and had informed me that while searching for this box, she was told by a ranger that my box was...

Letterbox Containers

Started by Baker (knightbaker63@yahoo.com) | 7 messages | First message: 2007-07-07 | Last message: 2007-07-09
I just went to my local Target to buy some containers and while there are a few lock and locks, I didn't like the sizes they had and now the Snapware that they carried, which I am testing in the...

Roses and Tears

Started by MayEve (mayeve511@yahoo.com) | 2 messages | First message: 2007-07-06 | Last message: 2007-07-11
A "new" Rose Is A Rose has been planted and Eunice Stocking's Tears have returned. MayEve MayEve z --------------------------------- Sick sense...

are inkpads inside boxes bad ?

Started by cliffordholm (cliffordholm@yahoo.com) | 13 messages | First message: 2007-07-06 | Last message: 2007-07-07
Question: Are ink pads inside letterboxes causing moisture problems? I've recently found some letterboxes that I'd call "older" such as placed in 2002. I've noticed that those have water damage. ...

OT- inks/embossing was: Non Stamping Letterboxers

Started by Baliddle (baliddle@sbcglobal.net) | 3 messages | First message: 2007-07-05 | Last message: 2007-07-05
I'm not sure where you buy the heat gun, but it's gotta be in the same area as the inks and powders. Yep, you ink up the image on the stamp with the embossing ink, pour on the powder, tap off the...

concerned - cross post

Started by uneksia (uneksia@yahoo.com) | 1 message | First message: 2007-07-05
yesterday i played hookey from work and climbed a particular mountain to find my holy grail. this elusive letterbox is one of the first boxes in new hampshire, been there for over 4 years now....

Migrating Coconuts HH - MPHG Series

Started by Scott Farley (placedenfert1@yahoo.com) | 1 message | First message: 2007-07-05
Just a quick note to let everyone know that the Migrating Coconuts have been released from inside the Trojan Rabbit, and are now en route to a new location. Given the slow airspeed velocity that...

Mr. Salty HH

Started by Bell Lady (jmbridgman@snet.net) | 1 message | First message: 2007-07-05
We liberated Mr. Salty from his Pitch Reservoir resting place where he has spent the last 8 months. He is now in a nice new spot and hopefully will be moved along soon.

cipher document?

Started by baliddle (baliddle@sbcglobal.net) | 2 messages | First message: 2007-07-04 | Last message: 2007-07-15
A while ago (last fall/winter?) someone had posted a message that they had put together a several page document with various types of ciphers, codes, cryptograms including tips, samples, etc....

Newbie with custom sig stamp and reluctant family members

Started by (gheart@comcast.net) | 1 message | First message: 2007-07-04
< bought and probably will always be because they just aren't as into it as I am -- they go along to humor me and to use as blackmail to get me to do things they want to do.... >> I'm new to the...

Personal stamps was Non Stamping Letterboxers

Started by pkleingers (pam@kleingers.net) | 1 message | First message: 2007-07-04
Well, I confess I was one of those who read about letterboxing in a family magazine and thought it would be perfect for my family to do together. Fortunately, it was a well written article and I...

Poll: sig. stamp

Started by Kathy Young (butterfinger1954@yahoo.com) | 1 message | First message: 2007-07-04
I had a store-bought sig. stamp with me when I went out to find my first box. Lady Loves to Travel Kathy Ann--the Maine-iac! test'; "> test';...

parchment scroll background

Started by amcaptd (amcaptd@yahoo.com) | 2 messages | First message: 2007-07-04 | Last message: 2007-07-04
I've just coded my first clues (HTML) on my web site and linked to them from LbNA. When I bring up the clues, they are not on the parchment background like all the others. What am I missing

Non Stamping Letterboxers

Started by Baker (knightbaker63@yahoo.com) | 50 messages | First message: 2007-07-03 | Last message: 2007-07-29
Have any of you noticed in your log books an increase in the frequency of boxers who don't use stamps and just sign in? I have. The problem is they seem to be the ones who don't seal up the box and...

Announcing: an Event in the Northern Idaho, Eastern Washington area,

Started by Nathan Brown (Cyclonic07@aol.com) | 1 message | First message: 2007-07-03
ladylavenderthyme wrote: > The Spokane area Letterboxers invite, all Letterboxers to attend a > Gathering on Saturday, August 25, 2007 at Higgins Point near > Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. See the Atlas...

The 10th in our Interview Series

Started by Mark Pepe (mjpepe1@comcast.net) | 2 messages | First message: 2007-07-03 | Last message: 2007-07-03
Hi boxers: It's been a while but #10 is ready and it's Don & Gwen from CA. For those so inclined, click the link below. http://donandgwen.blogspot.com/ Mark