>>The box is located near our family beach house so I could put

a new notebook inside, but I'm not sure the "rules" on this so to speak.

I would say that you should contact the placer first. This is a really nice
thing for you to offer to do. I live in Connecticut but have boxes in Ohio,
San Fransisco, New Jersey, Nova Scotia, PEI, New Hampshire... obviously, I
can't go running up to PEI if someone says that something is wrong with my
Panorama Park box. (Although I'd be grateful for the excuse...)

So, yeah, contact the placer and see what they say. Chances are they'll be
really happy to hear from you and that their box is alive and well. They may
ask you to send them the full logbook. In the meantime, a good idea would be
to go drop off some blank index cards so that other finders have something to
stamp on. :) If there's enough room in the container, it wouldn't be against
the rules to add an entirely new book. The only thing is, don't remove the
original without permission from the placer. (Does this make sense?)

Chrissy
aka Brandy, You're a Fine Girl

I would email the placer and ask them, but very likely they would appreciate
your replacing the logbook and mailing it to them. They may even mail you a
blank logbook in return.

You can, and should, certainly make minor repairs like replacing baggies if
you have the material with you to do it (a lot of letterboxers carry first
aid stuff with them). I take extra logbooks in case I find a box without
one (or if I know the placer and know they would be okay with it, I would
replace a full one too).

As long as you aren't changing the creative bent of the box or the location,
anything you would do to return a box to a proper condition or to correct a
deficiency (like no logbook) is usually appreciated. Just remember though -
mail the placer the logbook since it is a record of the history of their
box.

My .02,
Lucy


On 7/23/06, The Cox Family wrote:
>
> We found a letterbox this weekend while on vacation at the
> beach---anyway
> the placer put it there while they were on vacation and now the notebook
> is
> full. What do you do? Should I put a new notebook in since the person is
> not local and cannot maintain it?
>
> We're new to all this, we've found 4 (great) letterboxes thus far and are
> HOOKED! My five year old is having a blast doing this and I admit, I am
> too.
>
> Just curious. The box is located near our family beach house so I could
> put
> a new notebook inside, but I'm not sure the "rules" on this so to speak.
>
> Lindsey
>
> Our family blog: www.justenjoythejourney.blogspot.com
>
>
>



--
Barefoot Lucy
"It's not about footwear, it's about philosophy"


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Sounds like everyone chimed in with some good advice on this subject,
but I just wanted to add a question.

Is the logbook really full? I don't consider a logbook full until
every side of every page is full of stamps including the covers. I
personally love to find an old log and look at all the stamps and
comments in it and like to give other boxers that opportunity. I have
frequently gotten notices about full logbooks and then don't replace
them since there is plenty more room.

I've added several small logs to boxes but I leave the old ones in place with one exception that I mailed to the owner after contact via e-mail. The new ones are just register paper that is carefully crafted into a log that can fit into any sized box.

The funniest thing that happened was I placed a special one-of-a-kind-binding log into a box and then I found that same log being used in someone else's hitchhiker.

I know I've gone through 50-100 baggies re-vamping boxes this year. I've rescued more than one that were scattered on the ground.

-----Original Message-----
From: coxclan5@northstate.net
To: letterbox-usa@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Sun, 23 Jul 2006 8:24 PM
Subject: [LbNA] letterbox manners?

We found a letterbox this weekend while on vacation at the beach---anyway
the placer put it there while they were on vacation and now the notebook is
full. What do you do? Should I put a new notebook in since the person is
not local and cannot maintain it?

We're new to all this, we've found 4 (great) letterboxes thus far and are
HOOKED! My five year old is having a blast doing this and I admit, I am
too.

Just curious. The box is located near our family beach house so I could put
a new notebook inside, but I'm not sure the "rules" on this so to speak.

Lindsey

Our family blog: www.justenjoythejourney.blogspot.com


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<< I don't consider a logbook full until
every side of every page is full of stamps including the covers.
>>

This definitely would not float *my* boat. My containers aren't really
large enough to fit a zillion pages in the logbook, so I do have to change
logbooks occasionally in the boxes. But I really prefer it when people
stamp only one individual's or family's stamps to a page and only on one
side of the paper. (If a family is boxing with 5 family members and all 5
have their own stamps, then it's nice to see them all on one page if
possible to not waste too many logbook pages.)

I like the stamps to be only on one side of the paper because once I *do*
replace the logbook, I like to take the logbook apart and put the pages in a
scrapbook. Can't really do that if the stamps are on both sides of the
page. Well, ya can, but half the stamps won't show then. In those cases,
I'll often cut the scrapbook page and have it work like a mat, so that both
sides will show. But that's a lot of work.

Also, depending on the thickness of the paper and the thickness of the ink,
there can be a lot of bleed-thru so that it's difficult to distinguish one
stamp from another or one comment from another.

Also once a bunch of stamps and comments clutter up each page, it can be
difficult to determine which stamps go to which trail names and to which
comments. There are stamps and names that I see over and over again, and
those are easy to distinguish what stamp goes with what trailname, but there
are a lot of others that aren't familiar.

~~ Mosey ~~
http://www.freewebs.com/moseyingalong

I know what you mean - I recently ran across one of Silver Eagle's logbooks
that was chocked full and running over - and I do mean full. The only place
I could find to stamp in was on the edge of the back of the cover page! He
sent me a logbook to replace that one when I was in that area again, so when
I returned with my son we couldn't even find a place for him to stamp in
before we took the old book - he couldn't stamp in until we put the new book
into the box. I got to take the old one with me and peruse it before I sent
it to Silver Eagle. What fun to see a logbook that has been in a box since
it started and has every square inch filled up!
--
Barefoot Lucy
"It's not about footwear, it's about philosophy"


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>> This definitely would not float *my* boat. My containers aren't really
large enough to fit a zillion pages in the logbook, so I do have to change
logbooks occasionally in the boxes. But I really prefer it when people
stamp only one individual's or family's stamps to a page and only on one
side of the paper. (If a family is boxing with 5 family members and all 5
have their own stamps, then it's nice to see them all on one page if
possible to not waste too many logbook pages.)<<

This is how it's done for the log books we've seen so far (only six!), and it seems a shame when someone stamps on the back of a page and it bleeds through. I like to be able to see everyone's stamp and what they've written.

I'm wondering if this is regional at all? Maybe Portland letterboxers are one-page-per, and other areas are more likely to fill a book completely?

Cat

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I'm not sure if anyone has mentioned this yet, I just love seeing my
"filled" logbooks. If you replace someone else's logbook, do be
certain to mail the full book to the original planter.

You are sure to make them smile!

Just today, I got a logbook in the mail from my friend Knitica. Not
only did she dry out my letterbox that had been underwater in the
recent flooding in NY, but she carved a custom stamp incorporating my
signature image and hers and stamped that image on the front page of
the new logbook. (My original stamp is undisturbed.)

Utterly delightful!

Lisascenic