Monday, October 15, 2007

Marking Your Luggage

Anyone who flies the friendly skies can tell you that most luggage looks the same. If you recall from history, one of the industrial revolution’s effects was that products began to be mass produced rather than being hand-made one at a time, allowing replacement parts to be easy to come by when something broke down.

However, when a traveler needs to find their luggage quickly at the baggage claim carousel so they can leave the airport to make an important meeting, and not pick up someone else’s same-brand baggage, all airlines recommend travelers place a unique identifying string or tag on their luggage so it’s easily recognizable from other travelers’ baggage.

I guess one traveler takes this recommendation very seriously!

I just bought a red Velcro-attachable handle and tag with my name on it for my black Travelpro rollerboard.