Jake,
and Bob,
Once your caches are repaired/replaced, they can be unarchived and put back in service.
An EMail to our reviewer (with a link to the cache page included for convenience) stating that the cache is fixed should result in unarchival.
Worst case scenario is you would need to 'hide' a 'new' cache at the same location.
The speed with which disabled caches are archived is pretty-much left up to the local reviewer, and is not mandated by Groundspeak/Geocaching.com.
With around 500 caches a month being published in Arizona alone (I could only guess how many are submitted) our reviewer is overworked and under paid, and should be screaming for some help. With that kind of pressure, some errors of judgment are bound to creep in.

Back on topic. Once a virtual is archived, it's gone for good. :'(

ACM

Jake Olson wrote:

Similarly, they archived one of my caches that I disabled due to construction in the area. I posted a note on the cache before the archive stating that I was wanting to hold the cache disabled until the construction was complete to re-evaluate archiving it myself then. I sent a subsequent note to the approver that archived it which went ignored, or at least un-responded to.

The cache was named "Mostly 7's" and ended with 4 sevens in both the longitude and latitude. Moving the cache to an adjacent location would have undermined the whole concept of the placement.

Jake - Team A.I.

On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 8:20 AM, Bob & Linda Smith <Lrsmith@cableone.net> wrote:

I think I must agree here that some things GC see as needing heavy-handedness. They decided to archive one of my caches that I temporally archived because I had not replaced it within 30 days. I explained in a note that I was laid up with a serious leg injury and would get to it asap. I don't think they read that but just acted on the flag on my tempory archive. Which by the way must be fairly new as they threatened to archive another of my caches when I temporally archived it over a year ago and the flag just popped up. I found that I needed to post a different kind of log other than just a note.

I still look after a couple of caches for away owner that are close to me.

Anyway, we get a note whenever our caches are logged on line and should act on the note if needed.

Jumping off box onto bad leg Ouch!!

Bob Smith, Team Petite Elite, Prescott, AZ
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