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Mail the Bug - Right or Wrong


Northern Trekker

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Is it correct “Travel Bug Etiquette” to mail the bug to another cacher in another location in an effort to get the bug to a desired location or to rack up the miles on a Bug?

 

Your opinion, your feelings or your professional rule-call is appreciated. Is this CHEATING??

 

Northern Trekker

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I'd never do it to anyone's bug unless requested to do so by the owner. I hope nobody would ever do it to mine. I'd like the travel of my bug to be as natural as possible. To me that means from cache, to hand, to cache... or even cache to hand, to hand, to cache if they have to. icon_smile.gif

 

- Toe.

 

--==< Rubbertoe's WEBCAM >==--

Posted

I'd never do it to anyone's bug unless requested to do so by the owner. I hope nobody would ever do it to mine. I'd like the travel of my bug to be as natural as possible. To me that means from cache, to hand, to cache... or even cache to hand, to hand, to cache if they have to. icon_smile.gif

 

- Toe.

 

--==< Rubbertoe's WEBCAM >==--

Posted

Historic Threads...

 

Travel Bugs Being Handed Off, which had a poll and became a precident setting topic.

 

mailing

how to move a bug

Bugs by mail?

 

The consensus seems to be that if you are going to start a bug remotely to have it try to make it back home, you can mail it to the remote cacher. But they have to be the first one to place the bug in a cache.

 

Otherwise, it's considered "bad form." However, there's no hard and fast rule about it (there's no hard and fast rules at all with regards to Travel Bugs). icon_wink.gif

 

My FAQ section on common thoughts about bugs.

 

Markwell

Chicago Geocaching

Posted

Historic Threads...

 

Travel Bugs Being Handed Off, which had a poll and became a precident setting topic.

 

mailing

how to move a bug

Bugs by mail?

 

The consensus seems to be that if you are going to start a bug remotely to have it try to make it back home, you can mail it to the remote cacher. But they have to be the first one to place the bug in a cache.

 

Otherwise, it's considered "bad form." However, there's no hard and fast rule about it (there's no hard and fast rules at all with regards to Travel Bugs). icon_wink.gif

 

My FAQ section on common thoughts about bugs.

 

Markwell

Chicago Geocaching

Posted

I have a bug that is trying to get to all continents. Kablooey got him from a cache and mailed him to Embi in Australia. I have no problem with this, personally. I would like to be asked for permission first.

 

Just my $.02.

 

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Becky Davis

San Jose, CA

Cache 'n' carry... My 4 year old!

Posted

I was actually thinking of doing the same thing in reverse. Talzhemir posted a cool Geocache Passport and I was thinking of having the kid's TB mailed back to them once the passport is filled. (SASE included of course)

 

With their shorter attention spans it would be kind of like a countdown to homecoming. icon_biggrin.gif

 

Cheers!

JustAFew

Posted

I was actually thinking of doing the same thing in reverse. Talzhemir posted a cool Geocache Passport and I was thinking of having the kid's TB mailed back to them once the passport is filled. (SASE included of course)

 

With their shorter attention spans it would be kind of like a countdown to homecoming. icon_biggrin.gif

 

Cheers!

JustAFew

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quote:
I was actually thinking of doing the same thing in reverse. Talzhemir posted a cool Geocache Passport and I was thinking of having the kid's TB mailed back to them once the passport is filled. (SASE included of course)

 

I don't see any reason why a TB couldn't be mailed back to the owner after its made its journey especially if the intent is to fill a passport. If the intent is to see where its been and who has had it a full passport would be the best record.

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Eeyore

 

"Geocaching" - A nature hike with a mission!

Posted

quote:
I was actually thinking of doing the same thing in reverse. Talzhemir posted a cool Geocache Passport and I was thinking of having the kid's TB mailed back to them once the passport is filled. (SASE included of course)

 

I don't see any reason why a TB couldn't be mailed back to the owner after its made its journey especially if the intent is to fill a passport. If the intent is to see where its been and who has had it a full passport would be the best record.

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Eeyore

 

"Geocaching" - A nature hike with a mission!

Posted

Call me old fashion. I think they should travel from hand to hand. Not thru the mail. I have 8 out there. I had rather a cacher come to the States, find my bug & take it back to they're country with them.

rocker51

Posted

Heck NO!! Here's why I say that with such passion. My t.b. Liberty BellLiberty Bell T.B., went missing when a young man at Texas A&M decided to mail it to his father in another location, just to help it along. The letter got to his father just fine, however my t.b. was lost to the U.S. Postal System (USPS). I requested a search of the lost and found, it is offically lost.

 

So my two cents is HECK NO! If you don't take precautions, it will get eaten by the USPS! icon_frown.gif

 

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Posted

I just mailed one but had the owners permission before I did it.....Why not if it will help the bug reach its goal??

 

Found the cache but where is that damm GPS?

See You In the Woods!!!

Natureboy1376

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