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Why I have to hide a letterbox? and what it has to leave to people?
in Support and help by Riccardo98 (1.4k points)

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You don't have to :), but if you want to, cf. here: https://www.geocaching.com/help/index.php?pg=kb.chapter&id=127&pgid=822

Basically, a letterbox is a physical cache which contains a stamp (so that the finder can stamp his own field diary with it.)

In the stricter sense – and many letterboxes are done like this – it is often like a multicache, but where you find the next waypoints not with the GPS and co-ordinates, but with a description of how to get there. Often this is "wrapped" in a nice story, and that is what makes some letterboxes really worthwile.
by k+gw+a (12.6k points)
selected by Riccardo98
Totally correct. Except that Groundspeak made a change to Letterbox Hybrids recently, in that they must have some "Coordinate component" in them now. So at least part of the letterbox trail now has to have coordinates, a coordinate conversion, projection or such. At least that's what's being enforced by local reviewers in The Netherlands now. Personally I like the alternative ways of getting to the endpoint in older letterbox hybrids better than the now enforced "at least partly coordinates mandatory" guideline.
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It's worth noting that letterboxing predates geocaching by nearly 150 years! Details of letterboxing as a hobby can be found on Wikipedia at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letterboxing_(hobby)
by Optimist on the run (Expert) (20.5k points)
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