Making Virtual & Postal LB's

From: Debbi Scott (dscott5377@earthlink.net) | Date: 2003-12-02 10:36:19 UTC-07:00

I am pretty new to Letterboxing... and I get the concept of making a LB
to place.. but, can someone go about giving me tips for doing postal and
virtual LB's? My area is very limited to kid friendly boxes, and once
the weather warms up (my 2 yr old and 15 month old hate the cold), we
plan to plant some kid friendly boxes in our area... but, until then, I
think it may be fun to do the other types of boxes. Are there any
other types of boxes we could do?

Thank you!

Debbi

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Re: Making Virtual & Postal LB's

From: dagonell2001 (salley@klaatu.canisius.edu) | Date: 2003-12-02 18:35:09 UTC

--- "Debbi Scott" wrote:
> I am pretty new to Letterboxing... and I get the concept of making
> a LB to place.. but, can someone go about giving me tips for doing
> postal and virtual LB's? My area is very limited to kid friendly
> boxes, and once the weather warms up (my 2 yr old and 15 month old
> hate the cold), we plan to plant some kid friendly boxes in our
> area... but, until then, I think it may be fun to do the other
> types of boxes. Are there any other types of boxes we could do?
> Thank you!
> Debbi

I was going to suggest the virtual letterboxes on the bottom of the
map at http://www.letterboxing.org/america.htm but it appears that the
Virtual, International, and Hitchhiker buttons have been disabled.
So, you'll have to get them off the old site at
http://www.rpmrlm.com:1020/lbna/virtual/virtual.htm Can someone
reconnect the buttons on the new site? Perhaps the HH link should be
to Pete and Wanda's page seeing as it's more up to date?

As for postal boxes, this is the list to watch. When one gets
announced, sign up for it by following whatever directions are in the
post.

And as long as we're on the subject, I'd like to start collecting
puzzle boxes. I don't care where they are physically located, I just
want the puzzles to solve over the cold winter months. For examples
of what I'm talking about check out Dalliance in Western NY and Ra Ra
Ra in Mystery MA. I've already written to Sir B. for copies of his
Lord of the Rings series and I've already solved Orient Express at the
Kimball Library in VT. Any others? Semaphore, Braille, Sign
Language, Secret Codes, Rebuses, I'll try them all!!! I'm willing
to keep a list on my website for anyone else who wants to try their
hand at puzzles. Send the LB name and state location (or the actual
link) to dagonell@hotmail.com and I'll post it to my website.
~~ Dagonell the Pirate
P1 F20 X0 HH2 FF2 V3

RE: [LbNA] Re: Making Virtual & Postal LB's

From: Debbi Scott (dscott5377@earthlink.net) | Date: 2003-12-02 11:48:26 UTC-07:00

Thank you for the link! =]

Can you also give me some ideas on how I would go about making my own?
My oldest daughter who is 12 has decided she really enjoys carving the
stamps.

Thanks again! =]

Debbi

-----Original Message-----
From: dagonell2001 [mailto:salley@klaatu.canisius.edu]
Sent: Tuesday, December 02, 2003 11:35 AM
To: letterbox-usa@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [LbNA] Re: Making Virtual & Postal LB's

--- "Debbi Scott" wrote:
> I am pretty new to Letterboxing... and I get the concept of making
> a LB to place.. but, can someone go about giving me tips for doing
> postal and virtual LB's? My area is very limited to kid friendly
> boxes, and once the weather warms up (my 2 yr old and 15 month old
> hate the cold), we plan to plant some kid friendly boxes in our
> area... but, until then, I think it may be fun to do the other
> types of boxes. Are there any other types of boxes we could do?
> Thank you!
> Debbi

I was going to suggest the virtual letterboxes on the bottom of the
map at http://www.letterboxing.org/america.htm but it appears that the
Virtual, International, and Hitchhiker buttons have been disabled.
So, you'll have to get them off the old site at
http://www.rpmrlm.com:1020/lbna/virtual/virtual.htm Can someone
reconnect the buttons on the new site? Perhaps the HH link should be
to Pete and Wanda's page seeing as it's more up to date?

As for postal boxes, this is the list to watch. When one gets
announced, sign up for it by following whatever directions are in the
post.

And as long as we're on the subject, I'd like to start collecting
puzzle boxes. I don't care where they are physically located, I just
want the puzzles to solve over the cold winter months. For examples
of what I'm talking about check out Dalliance in Western NY and Ra Ra
Ra in Mystery MA. I've already written to Sir B. for copies of his
Lord of the Rings series and I've already solved Orient Express at the
Kimball Library in VT. Any others? Semaphore, Braille, Sign
Language, Secret Codes, Rebuses, I'll try them all!!! I'm willing
to keep a list on my website for anyone else who wants to try their
hand at puzzles. Send the LB name and state location (or the actual
link) to dagonell@hotmail.com and I'll post it to my website.
~~ Dagonell the Pirate
P1 F20 X0 HH2 FF2 V3

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Re: [LbNA] Re: Making Virtual & Postal LB's

From: Rayvenhaus (rayvenhaus@myndworx.com) | Date: 2003-12-02 12:04:24 UTC-08:00

----- Original Message -----
From: "Debbi Scott"

> Can you also give me some ideas on how I would go about making my own? My
oldest daughter who is 12 has decided she really enjoys carving the stamps.

For Team Rayvenhaus, the virtual letterboxes comprise 2 categories. Either a
stamp we have carved and digitized an image of, or an already digitized
image. Once we have that, then we go off in search of websites that pertain
to the image to build the clues from, asking questions, making the person
work to figure them out, and then have a url that points to my webserver
where the image resides and then they can download it for their virtual
logbook.

(We've made a logbook where we print out the image and place it there, just
like we stamped in)

As far as postal letterboxes, each is individual. The Aztec Gold we just
sent out was a massive undertaking in my not so humble opinion. Once people
see it, I hope they'll love it as much as we do. We came up with the 'Curse
of the Black Pearl' series here in Washington, which we are starting to
plant now and felt that we could share the finished stamp with people that
might not every get a chance to see it. So we built a container for it, and
a few other things and made mention of a new PLB starting up, asking for
names and addresses, off list, of any that wanted to join in and we got 72
people before the closing date. So, we packaged it up and shipped it off.

I'd suggest, and this is only a suggestion, that you pick something that you
like, whatever theme, carve the stamp, get it and it's log book ready to
handle the US Postal system and then announce it here. Then get ready to
not see it for a year or so. (grin)

Steve of Rayvenhaus

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