I was thinking "armpit! armpit!"

I have stuff for that, including a talking point outline, a chart explaining geocaching v. letterboxing, guidelines, etc. If you want it, I can email it to you.

Would love to see what you put together if you are willing to share!
I forgot to add that if you love carving you can team up with someone who loves planting.
And also that getting the order of operations correct for stamping/taking hitchhikers can be tough when you are new.

Thanks!

Playing Wingspan, doing puzzles that are a little too hard [1000 piece], ordering groceries, cooking and hoping to see birds at the feeders. Our area doesn't seem to have letterboxing anymore. Oh, and online dancing sometimes. Normally I'd be out walking every day. It's been as low as minus 10, something I don't recall ever happening before in Buffalo. Today we suited up and went to Niagara Falls. I wore spikes on my boots. Once the sun came out, it was beautiful!

20 of what? Foods?

I should have done the bills. But the puzzle got my attention. It's in the same room with the desk and the stack of papers that need tending. I'm doing 1000 pieces, a Renoir. You?

That is why we Northeasterners have Yak-trax and mini pry bars in our backpacks......

Well, I don't anymore since I moved south, but we boxed in all types of weather!

BB

I totally do that here in Florida.... "Responsible." Yes, being responsible. *nodding. (For me, I do it for the gag factor.....).

BB

I will make you one Memere. Didn't hear back from my response.

BB

Check your AQ mail please.

I miss watching snow...... However, I am carving stamps here in FL to be planted later this week, and carving for L&B too!

BB

I’ll have to put ice trax in my pack. I’ve been on some hilly trails that are covered in ice. Already carry a small ax to hack at the ice or frozen ground to access a box. Never thought of the biological means of melting frozen ground…haha.

I need to mail a 3x3” stamp for an event. Pink stuff is 1/4” thick, so I can’t safely mail it in an envelope at regular first-class rates. Do I need to spring for a padded envelope and expensive shipping? Thanks!

when I mail stamps to folks - I generally use regular envelopes and then reinforce the heck out of them with clear packing tape so they don't burst through the seams. I end up paying a parcel rate due to the thickness... but the upside is they automatically get a tracking number :)

Thanks, mud! You’re actually the person I’ll be mailing the stamp to (though not for a couple of weeks)!

I do that also, but usually sandwich the stamp between two pieces of rigid (but not necessarily thick) cardboard ... like two pieces of a cereal box type cardboard.

Thanks, Basset Mom! I’ve done that in the past, in a padded envelope.

You could use a bubble mailer/padded envelope and use stamps instead of a shipping label. It usually takes 3 stamps or so, same price as it would be in a reinforced envelope but much more secure.

If you have any mounting type foam you can cut some the general shape of the stamp, put a piece on each side and then put packing tape around it. That always works. You can use a regular unpadded envelope for that. They always arrive unscathed.

I no longer trust the PO and put the stamp in a small box.

My vote is with the people who mail using a padded envelope. If you really want it to get there, I wouldn't mail it in any way that would get run full speed through a machine with regular envelopes. If it's not going to go through the mail system as a regular envelope, then I feel like the padded envelopes are least fussy. I use PayPal shipping to get a discounted USPS postage rate for the padded envelopes. Lately it's been so dicey with micro postals in regular business envelopes that I wouldn't want to risk it with a regular-sized stamp.

This is exactly how we do it and haven't had any issues yet.

I save the cardboard from cereal boxes just for this purpose (we mail out a lot of stamps).

Fun fact: the material used for cereal boxes is called chipboard. It’s also used for bakery boxes, notebooks, and more.

Thank you, everyone, for the tips! My husband just got a package with some thin foam in it, so I snagged it and will sandwich the stamp in it before mailing in a small padded mailer. I don’t like to carve, so I want to give my stamp a good chance of survival to avoid recarving!

If a Kleenex box has a pretty design, I’ll reuse it for logbook covers.

I need to check out PayPal shipping!

Check out Pirate Shipping also. I just saved over $2 on a small package I sent.

A pirate walks into a bar and realizes he's wearing his eyepatch on the wrong eye.

On his 80th birthday, a pirate says, "Aye, Matey!".

A pirate brings a pencil to the ship in case he needs to draw his sword.

What is a pirate’s favorite letter? A: You’d think it be the "R," but his true love is the "C".

But you will no longer be able to blame shipping for . . .er . . .ah . . .never mind

;)

I already had my email planned:

“You never got the stamp/it arrived but was unrecognizable? Dang, that was the best stamp I ever carved—it looked like a nosox carve! Now I’ll have to do a quick replacement carve. Sorry!”