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Phone box caches
By: tarmacjohn Date: July 2, 2012, 4:19 pm
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A post from Graculus on a Facebook forum, might be of interest
to Simon......
Recently British Telecom contacted Groundspeak (who own
geocaching.com) after an engineer had found a couple of caches
inside phone boxes. BT said whilst they didn't want to
discourage geocaching their engineers would remove any
containers they found and asked that no more be placed. After
discussion with Groundspeak the UK reviewers have decided that
no more caches will be published which are in or attached to
phone boxes. Any active caches currently in place won't be
archived but we would ask owners to move them to a new location
as soon as possible to avoid them being removed. Caches that
subsequently go missing or are in need of maintenance must be
archived rather than replaced or repaired.
Please note that this only applies to phone boxes (of any type)
operated by British Telecom and not to any operated by other
telecommunications companies such Kingston Upon Hull Telecom,
Manx Telecom, Jersey Telecom or Cable & Wireless (Guernsey). Nor
does it apply to any of the old 'red' phone boxes that are out
of use and may be owned and maintained as attractions by local
councils or parish councils. For these normal permission would
apply.
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Re: Phone box caches
By: Griff Grof Date: July 2, 2012, 4:32 pm
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I was about to post this earlier, but decided not to :o
Don't really understand why this new rule is in place... Shame
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Re: Phone box caches
By: foraging 5 Date: July 2, 2012, 5:24 pm
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oh!!!
That's a real shame, these are proving to be very popular
caches. We have decided to leave them in place for the time
being, and see what happens.
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Re: Phone box caches
By: walktall Date: July 3, 2012, 3:30 am
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What a real shame, they [s]are[/s] were a fun series :( Not
sure what harm these small caches could be causing, for BT to
ask for their removal ??? :o
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