About

Letterpod, the letterboxing podcast, is a podcast for letterboxers, created by letterboxers. A podcast is like an audio (or video) cross between a radio program and a magazine. You can listen to it, and you can subscribe to it. You don’t need an iPod to listen to it, but you can move the file from your computer to an iPod (or MP3 player) if you want to.

Letterpod first began in May of 2006 when Choi, letterboxer and podcaster extrodinaire, first started working on the orignal Letterpod. The original podcast lasted 5 episodes, and featured lots of contributions from other letterboxers, through the the Yahoo group, Letterboxing_Podcast.

Episode 1 was released on June 16, 2006 and featured Choi explaining what letterboxing was all about.

Episode 2 was released on July 1, 2006 and featured Music Woman telling about her trip to Dartmoor, and and interview with The LazyLetterboxer.

Episode 3 was released on July 15, 2006 and featured Orion explaining how to get, follow, and solve clues, an interview with Kreepy Kelli, and Dale End Farm with clues to planting a letterbox.

Episode 4 was released on July 29, 2006 and featured Orion with a how-to segment on postal letterboxing, and sounds from the Greek Myth Story event.

Episode 5 was released on October 17, 2006 and featured Celtic Quinn explained how to safely pick up hitchhikers.

Interest waned in the winter of 2006/2007, and the original website that hosted the podcasts was retired. Planning began for Episode 6 with a new hosting service, www.podbean.com, in June of 2007. Jackbear began the role as compiler of episodes and on-air host. New episodes began in August 2007, and the Letterpod website also began posting audio clues and letterboxing related videos.

The Letterpod has listeners from coast to coast in the US, and has had listeners in the UK and Hong Kong! From the restart to the end of 2007, the Letterpod had over 1,100 listeners(unique IPs), with over 3,100 listens (streaming+downloads+feeds).

The states in this map marked in red have listened to the Letterpod:

And these countries: