Of course, you DON’T take the stamp, and leave a trinket, like geocacher’s do... you have your own hand carved stamp, and stamp in the log in the letterbox, and use their stamp to stamp your log.  I figure you’ve discovered that already, BUT, I’ve found “mystery” boxes (the ones who have VERY vague clues, and are hard to find) and then found the stamp missing, and a “trinket” left in it’s place… a geocacher had his box nearby, and someone came to it, but found the letterbox, instead, and “did his thing”.  One time, when I had my grand children with me, looking for a letter box, my grand daughter found a geocache box in a hollow tree nearby.  We left it alone, found the letterbox, did our stamping, and I got the email address the letterboxer had left in his box, and emailed him, and told him there was a geocache box within 100’ of his letter box…   He thanked me, and said he was going to relocate the letterbox… one hates to spend time hand carving a stamp to find that someone else thinks it’s a trinket, to be exchanged.  L

 

I just found out about Letterboxing via a website page about Road Schooling as we are a homeschooling family that travels much.

 

Total newbie so this appears to be quite similar to geocaching which we recently got into. I don't want to offend by comparing so please forgive me if I have.

 

Would anyone here care to do a quick easy to understand explanation of how to get involved and what to do?

 

Thanks so much!