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I originally got into geocaching through discovering my first cache in a phonebox, about 150 metres away from my home. The cache was seemed to get periodically nabbed, it was after all in a busy residential area. I struggle to pass by a phonebox without wondering whether there is a cache in it. A phonebox cache is a useful one for instant gratification (useful for getting children interested!), maintaining caching streaks, and also to lure out cachers looking for new traditional caches. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

One particular cacher, pappay, is renowned for “instant gratification” caches, in various locations within a phonebox. The classic routine for me when I see a cache in a phonebox is to check the underside of the shelf, underneath the coinbox (e.g. in a CD jewel box), above the door hinges, in the cavity above the phone and there are a few other locations in a phonebox where a traditional “tradi” cache can be hidden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But the telephone box’s fate was sealed in an amendment to the Telecommunications Act<\/a>. I have always been amazed that they are still in working order, even if seldom used – I pick up the receiver and hear a tone in pretty much every telephone box I visit for geocaching. However, the removal of under-used phone boxes has already started in earnest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One cache I will miss was one on “The Fine Art of Diplomacy<\/a>” in which the mystery led me to a phone box next to the British Embassy in Vienna, and the logbook was in the form of a diplomatic passport. There were of course warnings not to try to retrieve that cache in a large group, and not to lurk suspiciously at night. As its cache owner stated: “das Versteck leider dem allgemeinen Zellensterben zum Opfer gefallen.” (The hiding place has become a victim of the general trend of cell (phonebox) death<\/em>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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