Stamps and stuff...

Letterboxers are a creative bunch. Here's what the 355 people in my study told me they did with stamps and additions to letterboxes they planted:

Stamp variations

• Using thumbprints decorated to look like bugs or flowers when stamping into cootie letterboxes.
• Creating stamps that resemble “tiny relief prints, more art than a rubber stamp image.”
• A shadowbox stamp he or she created that consisted of a large stamp that would frame the subsequent stamps found in a series hunt.
• A series of circus-themed stamps for a letterboxing event.
• Another participant reported that now that she and her husband letterbox together, they have combined their personal stamps into a combined image when they log in on a found letterbox.

Other Stuff

• A first finder’s certificate in letterboxes. “I think it’s just a cool little something extra for being the first to a newly planted box.”
• Rewarding first finders with a laminated image of the letterbox stamp.
• Positive quotes in boxes for finders to pass along to their own boxes.
• A few stamped, self-addressed postcards in the box asking finders to send them when they find the letterbox.
• One participant reported sending a card with his or her signature stamp on it for someone’s birthday surprise collection. Another time he or she did the same for a soldier in Iraq. Both were in response to a call that went out on LbNA’s talk list.