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I sent an email- anytime is good for me and as far south as you need me to go, I can do. Not a problem.
I own seven caches in Green Bay and Door County. I would, of course, like a couple (or at least one) to plant up here. What I can do is paypal $3.00 for a USPS Priority cardboard envelope, and you could mail it out. Others might want to do the same, and a truly statewide distribution would happen. I would even go to $4.00 for your time. If enough people do this, you could accumulate enough cash for a six pack or even a case…
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Originally posted by DCexplorer:
I own seven caches in Green Bay and Door County. I would, of course, like a couple (or at least one) to plant up here. What I can do is paypal $3.00 for a USPS Priority cardboard envelope, and you could mail it out. Others might want to do the same, and a truly statewide distribution would happen. I would even go to $4.00 for your time. If enough people do this, you could accumulate enough cash for a six pack or even a case…I do have a paypal account and wouldn’t mind shipping some out. I’m already going to send a bunch up to Superior area.
I don’t think the jeeps would hold up well in a cardboard envelope. Anything subject to squishing could be a problem. The tags are chained to the roll bars which are made of flimsy plastic. I think they could be damaged unless I stick some spacers in the envelope.
I’m willing to check into the priority envelope. I’ve never used those before so I need to see what they look like. Is it a flat rate of $3.00 ???
Okay- I got the ten bugs home with me. There will be a few in Appleton possibly today or else tomorrow.
I made a *slight* adjustment to the bug sheet to customize it as a Wisconsin Jeep. Heehee. I printed the bug sheet, then put the page back into the printer. There’s lots of room at the bottom. In fact, just enough for the WGA logo. I opened a new Word document and put the WGA logo at the bottom center of the page and sent it through the printer again so the logo is at the center bottom of the bug sheet.
I’ve only done one so far. I’m heading to the Jeep dealership to see if they’ll let me sit all ten on the hood of a yellow Wrangler and take a picture.
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Originally posted by The Searchers:
Brian,
I work until 8pm in Waupun and could meet you after that or I could have Debbie meet you if you wanted it to be earlier. She will be done at work at 5pm. I would also be able to do it earlier in the morning.
BillBill,
Are you interested in the priority mail option? Checking the USPS website, it looks like it would be about $4.00 to mail them.
Send me an email if your interested in that option.
“There are two kinds of hunting: ordinary hunting and grouse hunting.”
-Aldo Leopold, A sand county AlmanacBrian
WGA President
Grousetales at wi-geocaching dot comI definitely like the idea of putting a Wisconsin Geocaching Assn logo on the bug tag. It might help keep them in our state!
I’ve been out-of-town and just saw the return of this thread.
I’d be happy to pay for shipping some to the Eau Claire area. Please let me know if any are left.
Ruth
BNB, I just met with Rhonda and gave her 20 bugs. She will be seeding Eau Claire and distributing some to the Madison area.
In celebration of the jeeps, the stats page (once all the data updates for the day) will now also include jeep finds!
Thanks to all of those that came to the “Get a Jeep” distribution event. We had about 20 teams come an get Jeeps.
I’ve made special arrangements to distribute jeeps to a few people still. Please check out this list:
- Searchers (Oakfield)- 2 Jeeps. Please contact me for further arrangements.
- EddyEd (Superior}- 2 Jeeps. Will be mailed.
- WhitnallGPS (S/E)- 2 Jeeps. Contact me to make arrangements.
- DCexplorer (Greenbay, Door county) – 2 Jeeps. Make arrangements for mailing.
- AstroD-team (Greenbay)- 2 Jeeps. Will be sent UPS.
- Cathunter (S/E)- 2 Jeeps. “Cashing Out” has your Jeeps. Coordinate with them for pickup.
- Cheesehead Dave (Mother of all Breakfasts) – 3 Jeeps. “Cashing Out” has your Jeeps. Coordinate pickup arrangements with them.
- Really I’m Not Lost (Manitowoc) – 1 Jeep. Geopink has your Jeep and will contact you. (Sorry I could only give you one)
The remainder of the Jeeps went out to people that would place them in other regions of the state. It looks like they will be spread out around every region of the state.
Thanks to all those who helped move the Jeeps along.
If your name is on the above list, please contact me asap to make arrangement to get your bugs. I need to finish distributing them by 6/18/04.
“There are two kinds of hunting: ordinary hunting and grouse hunting.”
-Aldo Leopold, A sand county AlmanacBrian
WGA President
Grousetales at wi-geocaching dot com[This message has been edited by GrouseTales (edited 06-12-2004).]
Sounds like it was an exciting weekend with distributing TB’s. We took advantage of this weekend to camp in Mirror Lake and hike Devil’s Lake with some friends. All of our friends had never been Geocaching so we took them on the Devils Lake West Bluff cache .
After spending the day hiking all over Devil’s Lake we were pretty exhausted to headed back to Madison. We were going to do a few caches at Mirror Lake but opted to come back in a few weeks to let our bodies recoperate.
I later saw this morning that some Jeep TB’s were placed at some of the Mirror Lake caches. Slightly depressing in missing those But on the bright side, we’ve got a few friends now that are getting into Geocaching and are wanting to track down some of the Jeep TB’s.
If anyone has more of the Jeep TB’s to be placed, I’d highly suggest placing one in the Devil’s Lake West Bluff cache as it is a very big challenge to get to and it seems that 2 other groups over the weekend were not able to find it.
Nick
of The CacheseekersI was at my nephew’s Illinois State Special Olympic track meet all weekend and missed the jeep fun…if anyone has a jeep to send out I’d love to do that…I’ve gotten a couple of caches ready to go, and have already chosen the sites of their placement (In Southern Rock County). A jeep would be a great addition to a new cache. I can pick it up or pay shipping or get it from a cache whatever works for you…let me know.
Am seeing many cache logs of jeeps being deposited out here in Washington state. In most cases, someone logs picking them up before they get logged in!
I haven’t found any yet…but I’m not looking that hard either.
Steve K
Oh well isn’t that our luck, we made a trip up to the Dells last night to pick up a gift certificate and decided to try the two caches in Mirror Lake that had Jeep TB’s in it since no one had logged it yet. Came to found out that both caches the Jeeps were retrieved from earlier in the day! Worst of all, one of the jeeps is going to be taken out of state
People stealing our jeeps for their own state, how rude
Oh well, we were able to retrieve a regular TB anyways. The mosquito’s were horrible! But atleast we have 2 more finds now
Nick
of The CacheseekersThere will be three Jeep TBs available at the breakfast tomorrow morning for those itching to get their hands on one.
You’ll have to earn it, though…
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