Hi Lee & Nancy,
Sorry to hear that your boxes have gone missing. Gwen & I haven't
had a chance to go look for them yet. Are these just around Apple
Valley or in Barstow too? The Taco Bell one seemed like it could be
located by someone cleaning up the place? The missing boxes could be
due to careless finders not putting the boxes back properly or not
being stealthy. You might want to put out a local box that is hidden
really well and one you can check on regularly and try to determine
if it is being left out or if it disappears quickly. You might want
to keep the specific clues off the site for a while and go WOM. To
set up some form of ID you could ask the finder what letterboxes
they have found and which ones they have placed. This might give you
an idea if they are legit or not. We have lost several since the
Time article,and I think that eventually the losses will slow.

Don


> Recently I have placed some really nice
> stamps locally, just to have them go missing. I suspect a Bandit,
> who actually had the gall to ask for help on one of the clues.
>
> What do others do to discourge theft of your boxes? I have
thought
> about NOT posting the clues; but rather make them request the
clues
> from me directly. Of course people could lie and have multiple e-
> mail addresses. How much personal information would a legit
> letterboxer be willing to give out to get the clues?
>
> -Frustrated in the High Desert, CA

Well in the good old days You Could String Em Up and
Teach em A Lesson but you cant do that anymore.
Something about a hanging body hanging over a
letterbox is just not right. But it would discourage
thieves.

Sorry this was meant as a joke.
no flames please.

All kidding a side there is nothing you can do to stop
thieves.


--- leenancytanney wrote:


---------------------------------


I have been letterboxing just over a year (F165), and
have just
started to place some. The first few I placed, were
out of my area;
and have had good success. Recently I have placed
some really nice
stamps locally, just to have them go missing. I
suspect a Bandit,
who actually had the gall to ask for help on one of
the clues.

What do others do to discourge theft of your boxes? I
have thought
about NOT posting the clues; but rather make them
request the clues
from me directly. Of course people could lie and have
multiple e-
mail addresses. How much personal information would a
legit
letterboxer be willing to give out to get the clues?

-Frustrated in the High Desert, CA







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--- In letterbox-usa@yahoogroups.com, Mary & Paul The Map Lines
wrote:
> Well in the good old days You Could String Em Up and
> Teach em A Lesson but you cant do that anymore.
> Something about a hanging body hanging over a
> letterbox is just not right. But it would discourage
> thieves.

and you'd have to change the clue, too.
"X steps later, directly under the dead body...."
Aud

I never thought of that you could take a compass
reading say 25 degrees and 25 steps. Hey with all the
Conn letterboxes and us running out of Dead trees to
hide letterboxes around here we could use Dead OH
never mind HEHEHEHE

--- cahillymom wrote:


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--- In letterbox-usa@yahoogroups.com, Mary & Paul The
Map Lines
wrote:
> Well in the good old days You Could String Em Up and
> Teach em A Lesson but you cant do that anymore.
> Something about a hanging body hanging over a
> letterbox is just not right. But it would discourage
> thieves.

and you'd have to change the clue, too.
"X steps later, directly under the dead body...."
Aud





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John Wayne

If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
George S. Patton
1007

A local LBer in my area has taken to putting curses on his boxes,
lol. You could try that.
Tara

--- In letterbox-usa@yahoogroups.com, "leenancytanney"
wrote:
>
>
> I have been letterboxing just over a year (F165), and have just
> started to place some. The first few I placed, were out of my
area;
> and have had good success. Recently I have placed some really nice
> stamps locally, just to have them go missing. I suspect a Bandit,
> who actually had the gall to ask for help on one of the clues.
>
> What do others do to discourge theft of your boxes? I have thought
> about NOT posting the clues; but rather make them request the clues
> from me directly. Of course people could lie and have multiple e-
> mail addresses. How much personal information would a legit
> letterboxer be willing to give out to get the clues?
>
> -Frustrated in the High Desert, CA