Letterboxing (hobby)

Letterboxing (of English letter box -. Mailbox ) is a recreational activity in which it comes, with the help of clues, a map and compass to find a hidden area in the container. It is something like the precursor of geocaching, but can look back on a much older tradition. Letterboxing is in 1854 arose when an Englishman hiding a glass bottle with his business card in Dartmoor and had encouraged hikers, there are also leaving their business card. Later, the glass bottle was replaced by a tin can and is placed a book in which the explorers this box - the so-called letterbox - could enter.

Today's Letter boxes each containing its own stamp and a logbook in which the finder enters with his personal stamp. In addition, the finder can enter the located in the letterbox stamp in his personal logbook. The notices referring to the Letter boxes are given orally, passed on in writing ( in book form) or now even over the Internet.