The best of all worlds -- going to check one's own box and reading all the
great notes AND finding a HH! This is how we found two out of the three HH
we've found.

We always post when the find a box or a HH (I guess we're real chatty). We
so enjoy knowing that someone has found our boxes that we are just guessing
that others feel the same way. If not, they can just skip the entry.

One person whose HH we had found read our posting and emailed us off list to
ask us to email them the comments from the logbook. In this way, they got a
date by date description of where the HH had been, who had found it, etc.
Maybe others can do this for the planter when they find a HH (or at least
offer to). It seems so many people miss hearing what has happened to their
creation. Maybe this is another solution. BeMa




>From: "SpringChick"
>Reply-To: letterbox-usa@yahoogroups.com
>To: letterbox-usa@yahoogroups.com
>Subject: [LbNA] Re: Speaking of Hitch Hikers
>Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2003 04:55:41 -0000
>
> > I've actually decided to stop making the darned things
> > since so few people seem interested in letting the creator know of
> > their whereabouts. For me, that's (or would have been) a major part
>of
> > the fun: knowing where my little stamps have traveled.
>
>
>I'm with you on that! I realize that boxing is a bit slow here in my
>part of the world, but even those that have been placed in other
>states, where the log books indicated a more regular stream of
>visitors, have never again been heard from... (not in e-mail or on
>the P&W HH list).
>
>One of the things I like about this hobby is going out every so often
>to check on my boxes and seeing the stamps of those who have been
>there and where they are from, etc. Can't do that with a HH. Even
>for most of the boxes I have placed out of state, I have been
>fortunate to get e-mail updates when they are found. Not so with
>HH's.
>
>I echo your sentiments... There isn't much incentive to put out a
>HH, other than the fact that I know people like to find them. But
>from a selfish perspective, I'd rather spend my time carving a stamp
>for a "regular" letterbox.
>
>Deb (SpringChick)
>


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