Luggage Name Tag should include?
 

What information should you have on your luggage ID tag? Your home address and phone, so they can contact a answering machine. Or place your itinerary in it? Or just a name and cell phone number? What do the experts suggest? :cool:

Thanks

Name & flight ONLY

If you include any other personal details like address or phone number then a bad person could read that and arrange for a little "house removal"

Outbound flight: On external tags, I provide name, flight number/date and contact info in the destination city. Inside the luggage I'd include more details.

Return flight: I understand the security concerns for those who live in a stand-alone house, but I live in a well-guarded apartment building, so I don't mind putting the building address. I use a friend's phone numbers simply to make sure that any call would be answered.

I list my office address, to avoid broadcasting the fact that my house has fewer people in it than usual. I list my cell phone number, since it roams and is not listed anywhere as associated with my address.

name
home address
cell phone
fax
email address

Name, cell number, and home airport. I figure that if the bags can get back to the right airport, I'll be happy to go pick them up.

Identifying "home airport" is a great idea and I might adopt it in future, thanks!

Name
Roaming Cell Phone
Cell Phone # in the destination country - I usually get that for long/frequent trips

My luggage tag includes the following on a label

Steven Frischling
USA: +1(415)738-7786
EUR:+44(0)7092 384045
HKG:+(852)3678-9948
[email protected]


I figure phone numbers that can reach me anywhere in the world and an e-mail address should work.

-Fish
www.flyingwithfish.com

Some tags say:
Robert Krex
+1787-XXX-XXXX
+1284-XXX-XXXX
+44(0)207-XXX-XXXX
[email protected]

Other tags say:
Robert Krex
PMB XX
Calle San Justo XXX
Viejo San Juan
San Juan, PR 00901
+1787-XXX-XXXX

I'll put whatever is needed to get my bag back to me. What I really want is a tag that the baggage handling system cannot tear off or mangle.

I have my name, my home airport, and my cell number. I always marvel at people who put their whole address on their bag tag. I always thought it was great advertising to people that YOU AREN"T HOME, ROB MY HOUSE.

Inside my suitcase I have the same information but I will also include a copy of my itinerary......

A business card.

I use a business card as well. That way, I avoid broadcasting the fact that I'm not at home.

I would not write my home address or home phone. I would write my business address or a number that can be easily changed. A business card sounds like a logic choice.