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HowardDGA wrote:I left a travel wallet with my passport, several credit cards, and emergency cash in a seatback compartment several years ago. Did not have my contact information in the passport. (If you are not familiar with them, a travel wallet was large enough to hold an old style card-stock paper ticket.)
I did not miss it for several days. Sent a letter (long time ago!) to the airline lost luggage office, got the wallet back, passport and cards OK, cash gone. Moral: make it easy for them to find you!
Lemmy wrote:The cleaning crew will find the item, note the seat number, and hand it over to someone at the gate. They'll either make an announcement or, if it's a valuable item like a laptop and you've already left the airport like an idiot, they'll call you.
Unfortunately, I've done this a couple of times. It's embarrassing, but I have always gotten my stuff back.
YYZYYT wrote:Lemmy wrote:The cleaning crew will find the item, note the seat number, and hand it over to someone at the gate. They'll either make an announcement or, if it's a valuable item like a laptop and you've already left the airport like an idiot, they'll call you.
Unfortunately, I've done this a couple of times. It's embarrassing, but I have always gotten my stuff back.
Once left a bottle of duty free rum on a trip back from the Caribbean (a big one). As it was an overnight connection at DFW I checked lost and found in the morning... strangely it never ended up there.
Horstroad wrote:I'm not saying it's only the cleaning crew taking items not belonging to them... but this always comes to my mind when I see someone walking down a bag of trash or laundry when they usually throw it.