I'm new to this list.. I was introduced to letterboxing about 2 weeks ago by someone on a PSP newsgroup and I was immediately intrigued! I'm in Colorado - anyone else in Colorado on this list?
I have not yet been out to find any letterboxes, still working on a stamp.
I have some questions about placing letterboxes - if it's in a State or National Park, do you ask permission first before placing them? Do you ask permission at other places? I was particularily curious about the letterbox (Scooby Doo series) that was placed in a library... was permission asked and granted? The poster can email me off list about this if he/she prefers.
I'm asking all these questions because I'm itching to start placing letterboxes, but I don't want to break any laws that I don't know about, or give letterboxing a bad name in any way... and I want to find out the best way to go about doing the placements.
Well, thanks for putting up with my questions, I hope to be letterboxing really soon!
~ Petal
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Hello from a new LB'er
5 messages in this thread |
Started on 2003-04-14
Hello from a new LB'er
From: Petal (petzdelight@attbi.com) |
Date: 2003-04-14 14:33:41 UTC-06:00
Re: Hello from a new LB'er
From: mlgainey (mlgainey@yahoo.com) |
Date: 2003-04-15 18:09:27 UTC
--- In letterbox-usa@yahoogroups.com, "Petal"
wrote:
> I have some questions about placing letterboxes - if it's in a
State or National Park, do you ask permission first before placing
them? Do you ask permission at other places? I was particularily
curious about the letterbox (Scooby Doo series) that was placed in a
library... was permission asked and granted? The poster can email me
off list about this if he/she prefers.
>
The Natl Park Service rulebook says you must ask permission or your
box will be removed. It varies with state and city park systems. I'd
ask other boxers in your area privately or via this group what their
experiences have been, but it seems like for the most part, you don't
have to ask beforehand.
Of course, the planters of the various library and bookstore boxes
will know for sure, but if memory serves, they didn't ask permission.
But of course, I may be speaking out of turn.
-- mlg
Richmond, VA
wrote:
> I have some questions about placing letterboxes - if it's in a
State or National Park, do you ask permission first before placing
them? Do you ask permission at other places? I was particularily
curious about the letterbox (Scooby Doo series) that was placed in a
library... was permission asked and granted? The poster can email me
off list about this if he/she prefers.
>
The Natl Park Service rulebook says you must ask permission or your
box will be removed. It varies with state and city park systems. I'd
ask other boxers in your area privately or via this group what their
experiences have been, but it seems like for the most part, you don't
have to ask beforehand.
Of course, the planters of the various library and bookstore boxes
will know for sure, but if memory serves, they didn't ask permission.
But of course, I may be speaking out of turn.
-- mlg
Richmond, VA
Re: [LbNA] Re: Hello from a new LB'er
From: (gbecket@aol.com) |
Date: 2003-04-15 14:43:46 UTC-04:00
In a message dated 4/15/2003 2:11:33 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
mlgainey@yahoo.com writes:
> The Natl Park Service rulebook says you must ask permission or your
> box will be removed. It varies with state and city park systems. I'd
> ask other boxers in your area privately or via this group what their
> experiences have been, but it seems like for the most part, you don't
> have to ask beforehand.
>
It's good manners to ask before you place a box and it also avoids the
problem of inadvertantly placing a box somewhere that might be harmful to
'boxers or the site. I think it's always a good idea to ask first. Mother
of Crickets
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mlgainey@yahoo.com writes:
> The Natl Park Service rulebook says you must ask permission or your
> box will be removed. It varies with state and city park systems. I'd
> ask other boxers in your area privately or via this group what their
> experiences have been, but it seems like for the most part, you don't
> have to ask beforehand.
>
It's good manners to ask before you place a box and it also avoids the
problem of inadvertantly placing a box somewhere that might be harmful to
'boxers or the site. I think it's always a good idea to ask first. Mother
of Crickets
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Re: Hello from a new LB'er
From: justplaingeorge (justplaingeorge@yahoo.com) |
Date: 2003-04-23 15:18:35 UTC
The library one placed for the Scooby series was placed with
permission. They were really nice about it. : )
Shell
>
> Of course, the planters of the various library and bookstore boxes
> will know for sure, but if memory serves, they didn't ask
permission.
> But of course, I may be speaking out of turn.
>
> -- mlg
> Richmond, VA
permission. They were really nice about it. : )
Shell
>
> Of course, the planters of the various library and bookstore boxes
> will know for sure, but if memory serves, they didn't ask
permission.
> But of course, I may be speaking out of turn.
>
> -- mlg
> Richmond, VA
Re: Hello from a new LB'er
From: Sir Balthazar (neovolatile@yahoo.com) |
Date: 2003-04-23 23:56:34 UTC
Dear Petal,
The way a bunch of us got introduced to letterboxing was that Ryan
Carpenter placed a box in a store. The owner of the store "googled"
the name of his store and found Ryan had placed a box there. The
owner was not too amused but his staff was. The staff began to tell
others about 'boxing. Ryan did not ask permission. He did risk having
the owner destroy the box.
In my upcoming Middle Earth series, I actually carved a stamp for a
store owner to use. Figured to rope him in to the thing. I let him
know that I was going to plant a box on or near his establishment.
Pandy wrote a note to the staff of a bookstore up in Portland,
Oregon. She told them how it helped the store get customers. She left
the note in the box. The box is now missing. Sigh.
So I guess my answer to you is that it depends on who you know and
what you think their response would be. If there are no rangers
around (like here in CA), then I feel okay about planting a box as
long as it is close to the trail. At UCSB, we just took a chance and
planted the box on campus.
Even if you do tell the owner or ranger, it is no guarantee that the
box will remain.
Best of luck and start planting those boxes,
J. Ellsworth Weaver
aka Sir Balthazar of 100**100D (Googled)
P4 F29 X8 HH3 D9
http://webpages.charter.net/astroweaver/letterboxing/letterbox.html
The way a bunch of us got introduced to letterboxing was that Ryan
Carpenter placed a box in a store. The owner of the store "googled"
the name of his store and found Ryan had placed a box there. The
owner was not too amused but his staff was. The staff began to tell
others about 'boxing. Ryan did not ask permission. He did risk having
the owner destroy the box.
In my upcoming Middle Earth series, I actually carved a stamp for a
store owner to use. Figured to rope him in to the thing. I let him
know that I was going to plant a box on or near his establishment.
Pandy wrote a note to the staff of a bookstore up in Portland,
Oregon. She told them how it helped the store get customers. She left
the note in the box. The box is now missing. Sigh.
So I guess my answer to you is that it depends on who you know and
what you think their response would be. If there are no rangers
around (like here in CA), then I feel okay about planting a box as
long as it is close to the trail. At UCSB, we just took a chance and
planted the box on campus.
Even if you do tell the owner or ranger, it is no guarantee that the
box will remain.
Best of luck and start planting those boxes,
J. Ellsworth Weaver
aka Sir Balthazar of 100**100D (Googled)
P4 F29 X8 HH3 D9
http://webpages.charter.net/astroweaver/letterboxing/letterbox.html