Originally Posted by
chx1975
I got two very large hopefully waterproof stickers which has my name, address, phone and email on it with about 1-1 1/2" high letters and plan to it on the two sides of my Samsonite hardshell. It's like an easy-to-read luggage tag. Any reason you could think of to not do this

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Basically you're advertising to every single person that sees you and your bag (from cab drivers, street cleaners, door men, luggage loaders at the airport etc etc etc) en route to the airport that you're going away. Then you're giving them the address to your nice empty house. What could possibly go wrong....?