Oh my goodness!!! It must have came up the river?
I would love it back!! What an adventure that box had!!
- Scabbers

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definitely did not come up the river. the box and contents are in perfect condition.
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I just called "Kat" my child's nanny at the time and told her the story! She was mesmerized and thought it was beautiful! Her box had an amazing journey.

Hello Everyone!! We have put out our FIRST letterbox out!! Do you think you can find it? You will never know unless you come down to Fortin Park in Oneonta NY!

Welcome to letterboxing, especially Texas letterboxing. I don't live in your area but will see you at TALE since you signed up. It should be fun and you will meet many other boxers!

I was having the same thing happen.
Several of my finds didn’t show up from LBNA (on app) in the AQsite log book
but it appears all my AQ from iso app have.
Sometime between May(ish) - July
They would show up green and found on my ISO phone app too but didn’t catalog to logbook as a find.

Didn’t know if you had found something out or if this was normal.
I had read the other reply about creating a “found” list and wondered if it worked for you.

i have been checking on my planted and adopted boxes. went to do a checkup on an adopted box and discovered i can't do that? if i have adopted a box and am now the owner of said box why can't i record a check up on it?
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You need to give your box a location in order for people to find it. You can to that by editing your letterbox and selecting location.

Well, you're not the owner of the fostered box. The owner is still the original owner. You're the foster parent, if you will.


You can! Record a find on it. AQ allows you to record more than one find on a box, and that won't change your find count. And if something has changed regarding the clue that you think is noteworthy, you can add an addendum.

no. it is not a fostered box. it is an adopted box and i am listed as the owner of said box. that is why there are two different tabs in your logbook. one for fostered one for adoptions. i am able to edit the clue without adding an addendum, but i cannot record a checkup.

in this case i do not want to record a find as i own the box. i want to, as an owner, record a checkup.

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I see someone mentioned that it has no location.

There is also something off with the listing.....it says stamp #1.....???...... like there are more than one stamp? Or more than one box? Or I'm just misreading it? I know the clue says there will be more. It just looks strange somehow.

If there are other boxes to come and they are all in different places, you need to list each box individually.

Listing boxes can be tricky if you've never done it before. As can letterboxing. Research is very helpful before you jump into the deep end of the pool. Going out and looking for boxes can be helpful before you start planting them.

There's a glossary here on AQ, along with tutorials, Code of Conduct, About Letterboxing. Hover your cursor over Home.

Oops, I stand corrected. My bad! I looked up adopted letterbox in the glossary and got this:


So here is my latest guess: it could be that only planters can record an actual check-up on a box. If you’re merely the owner, maybe you cannot record a check-up.

Hi JoyinDenison! I was just in your area a couple of weeks ago, and stamped in a couple of boxes. I noticed when I got home that you had placed a box. Maybe on my next trip I can find yours! Looking forward to seeing you at TALE!

By the way, I am in East Texas.

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Maybe you should bring this to Ryan's attention. I would think an owner (who has the main responsibility) should be able to log in a "check".

The work around is to edit the box and add a planter (hidden if desired) then a checkup is possible.

i agree completely! i thought maybe i was missing something but that does not seem to be the case.

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good idea!

on second thought, as i edit this, if i was listed as a planter then i could not record it as a find. i found it many years before i was asked to adopt it.

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If you put a 'watch' on a traditional box, will you get notifications of finds, or only if something on the listing changes?

I may be wrong but I think Ryan said that recording a find is the same as recording a checkup (they are just labeled differently). Could you try recording a find and see what happens (you can always delete the find if it ends up being a "find" rather than maintenance)?

you could very well be correct. however, imho, an owner, in this case, should have just as much right as the planter.

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it is my understanding, tho i could be wrong, that recording it as a find takes off my first find. i am a stickler for my logbook being accurate. that and i did not "find" it this time around, i maintained it. i am the owner of the box. just seems logical to me that as an owner i should have the right to be able to do a checkup on the box and mark it as such. that and i think it holds much more weight than just a find. maybe not in areas that have a lot of boxes but around here, where there isn't so many, it does.

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The latter. Definition of a watched box

So, maybe a find would trigger a notice because the last found date changed?

Well, not for AQ-hosted clues. That section is talking about remotely-hosted clues.

In the database, a checkup and find are exactly the same thing. It's just semantics.

Basically, the term "checkup" was created so planters wouldn't be discouraged from recording a "find" on their own boxes (since, as the standard had always been, planters can't be "finders" on their own plants).

But basically, they are two different words for the same thing. One applies to planters (the "checkup") and one applies to everyone else (the "find").

You can record multiple finds/checkups on any box. It will only be counted once for counting purposes. (Unless you are a planter, in which case it won't be counted at all.)

If you are not a planter, just record another find. It won't change your first find. It won't change your find count. If you are a planter, record a checkup. Same thing--it won't remove your first checkup. It won't change your find count. And you'll have an accurate list of every time you visited a box.

-- Ryan

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