Originally Posted by
Bluebirdnick
But what is to stop a passenger telling them to shove the fee and hand back his/her property?
Possession: remember, it's said to be nine tenths of the law.
After all, what's the passenger going to do if the company refuses? Break in to the storage area and forcibly retrieve it?
While I know it's in the nature of FT to demand the moon on a stick, I find it hard to see why a company which is spending money on a system for retrieving, collecting, logging / tracking, safely storing, and returning your lost property to you shouldn't be entitled to ask you (the person at fault) to pay towards the costs of that system.