Originally Posted by
craigthemif
Of course you make a fair point about considering others, but I rarely see any restraint at all in "determining whether it's vacant" and many hotels have a drop-the-key express check-out box which informs nobody at all about your departure.
You seem to be assuming that the only time those boxes are checked is after the official check-out time. In the hotel that had that option, we checked the box multiple times every morning.