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Board: Hitchhikers, Cooties, and Fleas
Feb 1, 2016 9:47am
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How do I find an HH or a cootie or a postal? I know that people give them to other letterboxers, but how do you know if someone else is a letterboxer without just asking? How do they know if you are? I would love do participate in HH/C/P but I have no idea where to start. I have a couple of friends that letterbox that would do them too so we could start a ring. Any ideas?
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Reply to: #919290 by Silhouette of a Rose
Feb 1, 2016 10:09am
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All info you need on almost anything LB related is right here.

Have fun!
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Board: Hitchhikers, Cooties, and Fleas
Reply to: #919290 by Silhouette of a Rose
Feb 1, 2016 11:47am
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Postals you can find by doing a tracker search and looking for rings or singles with openings.

Hitchhikers and cooties you just have to stumble upon in a box you find or in your purse when you get home from hanging out with other letterboxers.
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Board: Hitchhikers, Cooties, and Fleas
Reply to: #919290 by Silhouette of a Rose
Feb 1, 2016 12:08pm
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If you see someone hiking and for some reason you suspect they might be a letterboxer, the code question is:

Which way is north?

Answer: they point straight up in the sky.

I've only got to do this one time, it was soooo fun!
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Board: Hitchhikers, Cooties, and Fleas
Reply to: #919290 by Silhouette of a Rose
Feb 1, 2016 12:13pm
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Rings of postals are found under the Tracker section. Be aware that there is quite a commitment. About $3 per postal, and if there's 10 people in a ring, that means $30 plus, you need to carve a stamp for some of them, and be timely. I found it was not my cup of tea.. Start with Little monkey's newbie ring to find out more. Send her a message.

If your crafty, consider Letter boxing trading cards. LTCs. I'm not lying when I say it is addictive!

Anyway, take your time and read the entire glossary and all the links.
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Board: Hitchhikers, Cooties, and Fleas
Reply to: #919306 by FloridaFour
Feb 1, 2016 12:59pm
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If you see someone hiking and for some reason you suspect they might be a letterboxer, [...]

I've never had occasion to use it on the trail (yet), but I've heard it at letterboxing events because it is related to one of my personal travelers.
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Board: Hitchhikers, Cooties, and Fleas
Reply to: #919290 by Silhouette of a Rose
Feb 1, 2016 1:09pm
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how do you know if someone else is a letterboxer without just asking? How do they know if you are?

My VERY FIRST AtlasQuest Message Board post EVER addressed this issue, back in September of 2006:
http://www.atlasquest.com/boards/message.html?msgId=35591

Things went kinda downhill from there...
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Board: Hitchhikers, Cooties, and Fleas
Reply to: #919307 by FloridaFour
Feb 1, 2016 1:09pm
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Rings of postals are found under the Tracker section. Be aware that there is quite a commitment. About $3 per postal

It depends. My first postals have been micro-postals. The stamp is carved thin and the logbook is also thing. This means that the postal can be sent in a regular envelope with a single Forever stamp. If you want to start with postals then look for these.

I'm in my first regular postal now, because I got into the micro-postals.

If your crafty, consider Letter boxing trading cards. LTCs. I'm not lying when I say it is addictive!

I very much agree. I've done many of these. It is fun to see what you can do that meets the theme. It's fun to see what others have done. You'll learn a lot of new techniques by seeing them.

There's even a group that will send LTCs to newbies. Someone will post with who to contact about this.

I even had some questions about embossing that was being discussed on these forums so some people sent me some examples. Look up embossing in the glossary, but it is basically stamping the card, putting embossing powder on it (which sticks only to the inked portion) then using a heat tool to melt the powder onto the card. It makes for neat cards and you should try it some time.

Heat guns aren't too expensive. Here are some from Amazon and Harbor Freight. I use this one.
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Board: Hitchhikers, Cooties, and Fleas
Reply to: #919306 by FloridaFour
Feb 2, 2016 3:56am
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Which way is north? Answer: they point straight up in the sky.

Be aware that not all letterboxes know this sign. There really isn't a universally accepted way to know - but if they've got a piece of paper and they're reading clues out loud, or talking about SPORs, it's probably a good sign!
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Board: Hitchhikers, Cooties, and Fleas
Reply to: #919347 by TrailTroll
Feb 5, 2016 8:03am
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Also look for rainbow-coloured fingers.