Postiebri1150
2018-05-19 19:01:20
Hi to everyone
Im new on the site in the last couple of weeks our family returned to dartmoor for another great holiday.we all went back to search for our box which we left for our new grandson.We found the location but our box was gone,this the second time our box has gone missing.Our first box was on Hound Tor this recent one at Bonehill rocks above Widecombe.Are the boxes cleared for any reason?
whoisthechallenger
2018-05-21 22:21:29
Hello, and welcome!
I'm sorry to learn that your Grandson's Letterbox has gone missing - twice! "Are they cleared for any reason", you ask... Well, Letterboxes disappear for all sorts of reasons. Theft is a big one. Souvenir hunters, anti-Letterboxing vigilantes, landowners, innocent (and not not so innocent) children and dogs may pick them up and deposit them elsewhere. You have placed your Letterbox in very, very popular locations. Alas, not every visitor to these accessible Tors has the same understanding of or appreciation for Letterboxing.
If the Letterbox was damaged,with best intentions, it might have been removed as a 'Litterbox'. If your contact details were clear and not water damaged, you'd expect a courtesy call of course.
Finally, and I don't know the clue for your Letterbox, or know where it was hid, but nature has a clever way of making boxes vanish. Snow and rain will wash boxes out of holes and away. The scrape of a horse's hoof or a new rabbit hole would see any Letterbox be shifted out of sight. Plus, the site always *looks* very different a year later, as vegetation grows, or dies back, confusing even the most astute Letterbox owner.