Tips On How To Manage Your Luggage Tags
Most people would say that one of the first things that they do when they get a luggage tag at a customs office or at an airport, is to put their full details on the paper luggage tag and stick it on their suitcase. Whereas it is good habit to fill in details for your luggage just in case your bag gets lost (or simply for identification purposes), it may not always be in your best interest to put all your details in the paper luggage tag. Why do I say this? Well, just think about it for a moment. When you are at the airport, and when you fill your luggage tag with your details, anyone who has ill intentions can easily get to see who the best targets are for them to rob. If you are in your home country, your luggage tags will easily tell a robber where you live and that you will probably be away from home for a few days if not for at least a day. The robbers can then easily go to your home and make sure that there is nobody at your home before they rob you.
On the other hand, while you are at your destination, your luggage tag can easily tell ‘people with bad intention’ that you are from out of town and that you will be a good mark for any bad things that they may want to do, including robbing you of your bag. As you can see, the paper luggage tag with all your details can easily ruin your trip if you are not careful about how you handle it. Below is a little bit more detail on how you need to handle your luggage tag as well as some suggestions on what to do in order to avoid any incidences concerning your luggage tag.
To begin with there are many unique luggage tags that you can get apart from the basic paper tag that you can get at the airport or from a customs office. Wouldn’t it be better if you had some control over the luggage tag you had in your bag? Better yet, how about getting unique luggage tags for your bags so that you can easily identify your bags? This will at least help you avoid thinking about the whole labeling process when you are at the airport and you are distracted by so many things that are going on around you. What’s more, by having your own luggage tags you can label them in the best way possible. It is actually recommended that when you label your luggage tag, you should either use an office address or post office box address instead of your home address.
Furthermore, you should use a secondary email address instead of your primary one and make sure that you use a mobile address instead of your actual home phone number, which can betray where you actually live. Additionally, if you can get leather luggage tags that can easily be hidden away or concealed from the public eye, this will give you a further advantage of privacy and therefore avoid any unnecessary or avoidable incidences.
