What a shame! Hopefully you can use the cache logs to track down who took it, and you can get it back.

Sheba

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From: csb_bc
Subject: [LbNA] Geocachers
To: letterbox-usa@yahoogroups.com
Date: Wednesday, July 8, 2009, 12:47 AM

This is the second time this has happened, and I've posted the following on "The Official Global GPS Cache Hunt Site":

I have had a letterbox planted in Campbell Valley Regional Park since 2004. For 5 years it was quietly collecting other letterboxers' stamps and comments. In 2009 a geocacher placed his/her cache "directly" beside my letterbox. (Yes, they knew it was there... they left a note)Within a few months my hand carved stamp was gone!

This letterbox was clearly marked: THIS IS A LETTERBOX

Please, please, please!!!! Geocachers! Educate yourselves about letterboxing! Do not remove "anything" from letterboxes.

cc: LbNA, Atlas Quest



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That really makes me mad.
My children and I do both. Due to the fact that there are just more geocaches closer to us. I talk to them all the time about respecting the property that someone else worked on, so that we can enjoy this activity. So I am sorry for you.





--- In letterbox-usa@yahoogroups.com, "csb_bc" wrote:
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> This is the second time this has happened, and I've posted the following on "The Official Global GPS Cache Hunt Site":
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> I have had a letterbox planted in Campbell Valley Regional Park since 2004. For 5 years it was quietly collecting other letterboxers' stamps and comments. In 2009 a geocacher placed his/her cache "directly" beside my letterbox. (Yes, they knew it was there... they left a note) Within a few months my hand carved stamp was gone!
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> This letterbox was clearly marked: THIS IS A LETTERBOX
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> Please, please, please!!!! Geocachers! Educate yourselves about letterboxing! Do not remove "anything" from letterboxes.
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> cc: LbNA, Atlas Quest
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Yeah, good luck with that...I put a series out in a city park here, but foolishly put box 1 near a 'cache. Clues were WOM for a month, then posted...the day I posted them, I got a message from one of the locals who had the WOM clues that the first stamp was gone (along with the fancy-schmancy decorated container I had made for it), traded out by a cacher. She actually tracked down the cache for me online :-) and I emailed every single person who logged finding said cache during that month. I got loads of replys back, saying "nope, not me" but the person who took the stamp remains at large. I did have a couple folks tell me they did find my LB with the stamp intact, so the window has narrowed, but I still need to cross-reference replies rec'd against the cache log, and also the LB log.

Frankly, I don't think I'll get the stamp back; I've recarved and replaced, moving the LB to a (hopefully) safer location.

FWIW, some of the folks who wrote said they never "trade trinkets" and just log their visit in the book. I sent them info/links about letterboxing...maybe I'll make a convert!

~rozebud (back to lurking now)

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> What a shame! Hopefully you can use the cache logs to track down who took it, and you can get it back.
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> Sheba
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> From: csb_bc
> Subject: [LbNA] Geocachers
> To: letterbox-usa@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Wednesday, July 8, 2009, 12:47 AM
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> This is the second time this has happened, and I've posted the following on "The Official Global GPS Cache Hunt Site":
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> I have had a letterbox planted in Campbell Valley Regional Park since 2004. For 5 years it was quietly collecting other letterboxers' stamps and comments. In 2009 a geocacher placed his/her cache "directly" beside my letterbox. (Yes, they knew it was there... they left a note)Within a few months my hand carved stamp was gone!
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> This letterbox was clearly marked: THIS IS A LETTERBOX
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> Please, please, please!!!! Geocachers! Educate yourselves about letterboxing! Do not remove "anything" from letterboxes.
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> cc: LbNA, Atlas Quest
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