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via inc.com

We made it into Inc magazine with some other cool tools. "What I like about Turly Tag is the anonymity. Criminals who find bags would never return your belongings anyway, so you might as well protect your identity when you travel"

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via springwise.com

Thanks for the great article about TurlyTag. Some great enhancements in the works for Q4 release. We appreciate your support.

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via dailyiowan.com

“I love to return things; it’s rewarding for me,” Chapin said, his brown eyes shining.

“I don’t get paid based on that, it’s not a grade or anything, but at the end of the year, I can print off how many things I’ve returned, and it makes me feel better about my job,” he said.

To be precise, 214 is the magic number — the number of lost items he’s returned to their owners since taking the position in January 2010.

Finding the person to whom a lost item belongs is no small feat. He often spends hours scouring lost property for a name or any traceable information that could lead him to the owner of the lost item.

“You get lucky sometimes, you know, and it’s kind of part of the job,” Chapin said. “You just have to be lucky to find the owner and that kind of makes it fun too. You’re digging around on a cell phone trying to find a number or the name of the person, and you’re like, ‘Yes, I found it.’ It’s exciting sometimes.”

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via newsworks.org

Imagine your camera was stolen and then found with a bunch of other stolen stuff. How would you find the rightful owner? The Philly police have setup a lost and found website to help return a bounty of booty.

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A lost and found story as told by our friend Gary Frisch . In February of 2009, I got my kids a pet parakeet, which we named Twitter. This was a special bird, and warmed to my family right away. He was blue, white and grey, very distinctive looking. Sadly, on Dec. 27 that year, Twitter escaped from our third floor apartment when my 10 year old son accidentally left the sliding door to our deck open for a minute. A family search of the area yielded no bird. I posted a "missing bird" sign in the apartment complex clubhouse, offering a reward, and there was a confirmed sighting of Twitter a couple of days later. Based on that sighting, I spent the next two or three weeks searching the apartment complex for the elusive blue bird. Despite heavy snowfall, I continued to search, and placed his cage with food near where he'd been last seen. No luck. I finally came to the conclusion that we'd never see Twitter again.

My son, missing the bird and feeling guilty, said he hoped Twitter found someplace good to live. I smiled and lied that I'm sure he did. We moved on and bought another parakeet, which never was as sociable as Twitter. Flash forward to June 29, more than six months later. Walking in my complex, I saw a little Asian girl carrying a birdcage. I knew this girl from my son's bus stop, and asked if I could see her bird. I was just trying to be friendly. Imagine my surprise when I saw a blue, white and grey parakeet! I asked where she got the bird, and she said she found it on her deck in December. I told her this was my bird. We walked to her apartment, which was in the same building as mine, where I spoke with the girl's mother. Her younger brother said if it was my bird, they should return it to me. I offered them a reward. The girl asked me a list of questions to confirm that I was, in fact, the rightful owner. Questions like, "Does he talk?" (No) "Does he let you pet him?" (Yes). Finally, the kids and their mom walked back to my apartment, where I showed them a photo of Twitter with my daughter hanging on the wall, and introduced them to our replacement bird. Any doubt was eliminated. The kids accepted a $30 reward, and let me borrow the cage until I could put the two birds together. When I called my son at his mom's house to tell him, there was silence, then bawling. He was so happy, and I suspect, relieved and a little vindicated. I felt like I saw something come back from the dead. In fact, the bird was living in our building for the previous 6 months, unbeknownst to us. I've since started calling Twitter the miracle bird. If you want to hear more from Gary and Twitter, contact Gary at his PR agency  @gfrisch at www.swordfishcomm.com

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Losing something important and valuable sometimes makes you think that the world is a dark place. One of our customers just had their keys returned by an "Angel". Danny is the manager of a Chipotle restaurant, he's clearly one of the good guys. Here, he tell's the story in his own words

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via digital-photography-school.com

This is probably a little extreme but certainly charming. Sometime asking is enough.

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via businessinsider.com

She is definitely a angel to Fabrice Tourre. The idea that he was the lone trader that had a hand in Goldman Sachs mortgage crisis is ludicrous. We love our laptop angels

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One of our customers just had their keys returned and he emailed me to let me know how great the process worked. I have edited his words a bit to clarify the story. He gave me permission to tell the story but not to reveal his name. Let's call him Mr. C. His story:

I was visiting Providence with some friends and spent about an hour window shopping on Thayer Street. Went to a great burrito place, ate our lunch. We then decided to get coffee and walk back to our car which we had left about 12 blocks away on Westminster. No sooner had we reached our car, when we received a call that our keys had been located at the restaurant. The great thing was, we didn't know we had lost them and would have had to backtrack all of our steps in the search. I love this service and now can't imagine living without it.

We thank you Mr. C. And if anyone else has a return story to tell, please let me know.

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via bnet.com

Donna Fenn of BNET asks how we started and what role the kids played in the thought process. In my house, keeping track of the kids stuff is like operating mission control. When you ask your child, "where's your new jacket" and they cant remember a thing. It can make anyone shake their head in wonder. I needed an easy way to get my their stuff back without relying on my children's less than stellar memory.

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via lifehacker.com

This tip is pretty good. I should know, I have used it and it works. I'm a proponent of using all the tools you can to get the job done.

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