What Are PFX Counts and Other Abbreviations?
This question gets asked a ton. Please don’t ask it on the talk list — the list is beyond burnt out on it :-). P and F is simply a declaration of how many boxes the North American letterboxer has Planted and Found — it usually appears in one’s e-mail signature. For example, P83F220 means the letterboxer has hidden 83 boxes, and found 220. “X” is the number of eXchanges made with other letterboxers, usually exchanges of personal stamps. “E” is the number of Event stamps collected by a letterboxer. Some people will also put other abbreviations in their signature, if you are interested in what they mean, dumpster dive the talk list archive, or ask the individual directly, please don’t post this question to the talk list. Of course, counting is not as easy as it first appears on the surface, and sometimes people ask “how should I count this?”. For example: ‘What if I find the box and the stamp isn’t there?’, or ‘What if I find the box and it contains a map to the stamp and I can’t find t
