Travel Bug Etiquette

[Sudonim]

I need some member input.
I was recently e-mailed from someone in the Virginia/North Carolina area. He has a TB that wants to go to Prince Edward Island. He saw that the Bangor Airport TB Hotel has a TB that wants to go to his area. He is proposing that he mails me his TB, and I mail him mine.
The question is that, while this is fulfilling both TB goals, it seems to defeat the purpose of being carried long distances by cachers. I assume that the bugs would be "grabbed" at the receiving end and placed in local caches. It really helps out the bugs, but something seems shaky about it. What do you guys think?
Fire away

[attroll]

Personally I don't agree with doing this. But this is just my opinion. Your right it does seem to defeat the purpose. If he wants to do that then why doesn't he just mail it to Prince Edward Island and then it will be there. To me it seems like cheating. But in the long run he is only cheating himself.

[brdad]

I think emailing TB's is kind of lame too. Possibly it'd be ok if it was stuck in some cache where cachers never go or the like, but hw often does that happen? Why don't we just mail each other our caches while we are at it, so we can log them?

[RanMan22]

I think emailing TB's is kind of lame too.

How does one e-mail a TB?


-RanMan22

[brdad]

How does one e-mail a TB?


-RanMan22

Good thing you used 4 of them smileys, sport.....

[Haffy]

Don't think Brdad said e-mail the TB's, he said mail....lol

[Beach Comber]

Why don't we just mail each other our caches while we are at it, so we can log them?

I never even thought to ask you to mail me the Old 470 cache.
Or perhaps it was in the mail each time I tried to find it - hehehe

[WhereRWe?]

Mailing TB'S??? BAD, BAD, BAD...

[Dextah]

Mailing TB'S??? BAD, BAD, BAD...

Ditto - defeats the purpose

[Mainiac1957]

A DOUBLE Sheesh Bruce! You feel strongly on this don't you. I personally like to see them go the old fashioned way. I'm sure there are extenuating circumstance to be found even in our humble little world of Geocaching. I look at like Vegitarians. You got you every day garden variety (no pun intended). Then you have your Vegans. The both want the same thing, it's just about the degree of intensity. It's like back when a certain Tennessee cacher would a log a group of finds for one listing. I chose not to participate in that. That was my choice. And according to what Attroll found out from GC.com it's fine either way in there eyes. IMHO Thanks again for the great time Saturday, and when are we doing this again?