i used to use bags, but stopped because it seemed that it atracted animals. the ziplock bags must have some sort of smell that atracts. but i will admit that animals are still a problem. they like tupperware too! you can never win.

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david (team new hampshire)
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Mountain Scorpia wrote:
Doing box maintenance yesterday, I found a box that someone had decided needed a ziplock bag around it. The ziplock had toothmark holes in it, which means of course a critter was involved, and also that moisture got in.

And so the logbook - which for two years was just fine - now smells like mildew.

Please and thanks,

Lucy
MountainScorpia/Volksboxer


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I was considering the possibility of using a moth ball in the box to ward off animals since their smell can be 100 times greater than ours and the oder would be overpowering. I saw mothballs scattered on the ground in a cemetery recently.

-----Original Message-----
From: gingerbreadjunk@yahoo.com
To: letterbox-usa@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Mon, 24 Jul 2006 8:30 PM
Subject: Re: [LbNA] Please don't bag my boxes

i used to use bags, but stopped because it seemed that it atracted animals. the ziplock bags must have some sort of smell that atracts. but i will admit that animals are still a problem. they like tupperware too! you can never win.

the rocks are starting to roll again in the granite state
david (team new hampshire)
http://teamnewhampshire.blogspot.com


Mountain Scorpia wrote:
Doing box maintenance yesterday, I found a box that someone had decided needed a ziplock bag around it. The ziplock had toothmark holes in it, which means of course a critter was involved, and also that moisture got in.

And so the logbook - which for two years was just fine - now smells like mildew.

Please and thanks,

Lucy
MountainScorpia/Volksboxer

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This would be an off-label use, and as such, because toxins are involved,
would technically be illegal. Tho I realize that the cemetery is probably
trying to discourage gophers and other hole digging critters. Mothballs are
napthalene and paradichlorobenzene. Both of these are toxic and possible
human carcinogens. Mothballs have been responsible for deaths to children
because they look like candy. Animals probably would steer clear but this
might not be a great idea if your area has families that letterbox with
children. I don't think it would give letterboxing a very good name to have
something like that hit the media -- Child Killed By Letterbox.

In some of the parks and municipalities that do allow letterboxing,
including toxins in the box might also not exactly be allowed. Even as an
adult, I wouldn't want to be handling a box that moisture got into with a
mothball in there. Of course, just opening the box and getting a whiff of
the mothball smell and I'd be walkin' away anyway. Yuck. I'd much rather
just lose an occasional box to animals.

~~ Mosey ~~

-----Original Message-----
From: letterbox-usa@yahoogroups.com
[mailto:letterbox-usa@yahoogroups.com]On Behalf Of RMORGAN762@aol.com
Sent: Monday, July 24, 2006 11:18 PM
To: letterbox-usa@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [LbNA] Please don't bag my boxes


I was considering the possibility of using a moth ball in the box to
ward off animals since their smell can be 100 times greater than ours and
the oder would be overpowering. I saw mothballs scattered on the ground in a
cemetery recently.

Saturday I again came across a cammo box where the last finder had put
the box inside the baggie, instead of putting the baggie inside the
box, with logbook inserted. Of course the baggie wasn't closed.

How can such a simple concept be so difficult?

--- In letterbox-usa@yahoogroups.com, Mountain Scorpia
wrote:
>
> Doing box maintenance yesterday, I found a box that someone had
decided needed a ziplock bag around it.

Here in the Pacific Northwest we have many areas that are damp most of
the year. Putting an entire letterbox in a baggie would just spell
disaster and make the whole thing moist. Yuck.

How about this for a suggestion: mark your baggies with a permanent
felt pen.

If you double bag your logbook, mark one bag "Logbook inner" and
one "Logbook outer".

Similarly, one could be marked "Rubberstamp".

Maybe this would help people understand how to put it back.

What do y'all think?

KuKu

That's a really good idea. We are always depending upon our creaky memories to figure out which bag goes to what. I'll be sure to do that with any boxes I plant.

Cat
http://blogathon.org

----- Original Message ----
From: Susan Johnson
To: letterbox-usa@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Tuesday, July 25, 2006 9:21:43 AM
Subject: [LbNA] Re: Please don't bag my boxes

Here in the Pacific Northwest we have many areas that are damp most of
the year. Putting an entire letterbox in a baggie would just spell
disaster and make the whole thing moist. Yuck.

How about this for a suggestion: mark your baggies with a permanent
felt pen.

If you double bag your logbook, mark one bag "Logbook inner" and
one "Logbook outer".

Similarly, one could be marked "Rubberstamp" .

Maybe this would help people understand how to put it back.

What do y'all think?

KuKu








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--- In letterbox-usa@yahoogroups.com, Mountain Scorpia
wrote:
>
> Doing box maintenance yesterday, I found a box that someone had
decided needed a ziplock bag around it.


Ugh. I loathe this.
Why do people feel it is necessary to put a plastic bag on the outside
of a box? Why??

stop it

phyto