those more noble...
By the way, no audit will ever be done on your PFX scores. If
someone thinks you are lying, they will likely not care much. If you
think you are lying, you will not be able to sleep at night and it
will be punishment enough.
P means put, placed, created, clued, and carved. It is any box you
make with a new stamp, clues, and log book. If you replace a box it
does not count as a new P unless the clue and the location and the
stamp are all changed. If you start a hitchhiker along its way it
counts as P. If you find the hitchhiker and move it along it is not
a P it is an ...
F means found... which means found unless... well, it does not count
as found if you planted it, even if you forgot where it was, or one
you already have found, or one you can't remember finding, but whose
stamp you already have (unless two boxes have duplicate stamps!) It
does not even count as found if you find it somewhere else... down
the river, or in the park ranger's office. If you find a box and
repair it by replacing the stamp or pouring the water out of it or
drying it in the summer sun, or putting it in a new tupperware, it is
still found - not placed. You will get extra credit when it counts -
uh, when it is important - it does *not* count except to God and to
the letterboxer you helped out.
X means exchange... and this usually works by finding the boxer
instead of the box. Any letterboxer you find who has their stamp
available can stamp your log book if both parties agree. (The
reverse is true as well.)
Note that no one has ever decreed a punishment levied on an honestly
found letterboxer who does not have their stamp available. If this
sport were more like life in fighter squadrons, someone would have
set such a penality long ago... but it is not. I live in fear that
I will be found without my squadron coin - especially near a bar -
where money runs out of one's pockets like water through seemingly
sealed tupperware. Perhaps, for the good of Boston pubs, such a
punishment could be decreed by the Lords and Ladies of LbNA. At the
very least, this should be required at meetings of letterboxers.
Finally, I saw a posting several weeks back that listed P, F, X and
E. I foolishly asked what E might stand for, foolish because no one
answered and here I sit asking again....
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--- In letterbox-usa@y..., "Straub"
> I know that P means planted and F is for boxes found. I learned
that X is
> exchange. What exactly is an exchange. How is it done.
> Thanks.....Chuck Straub P13 F39