What to do with the items you found?

Imagine that you found someone’s stuff, would you return it to its owner?Probably no one can answer that question surely. It seems no matter how hard we tried, we can’t put ourselves in someone’s shoes.Found something? Without going, you have many variants of what to do with the found item, you should only choose one of them. It doesn’t matter, would you bring it to the police station, or to the lost-and-found, both institutions were created to return lost items to their true owners. But if you want to make a good deed, you should try yourself in searching for a holder on your own.

Pay attention to the information below, and we will show you how to do it properly and don’t make any mistakes.

What to do if I found someone’s stuff?

Try to identify the real owner on your own. It depends on the type of item, you noticed on the ground outside or somewhere else.

If you found such an object as a wallet, look for the owner’s contact information, which can help you trace the missing object’s true holder. Check out the documents or bank cards.
Talking about mobile phones, try to unblock the gadget and check the contacts of the phone. If there is no access code, call the relatives of the owner and make an appointment.

If the mobile phone is blocked, here is what you can do: neatly pull out the SIM-card of the found phone, and insert it into your smartphone. Probably you will have an opportunity to see the contacts of the SIM-card holder.

If you didn’t discover anything useful, follow the next points of our instruction.

Don’t hurry to bring the found item to the nearest institution. It seems to be OK, but you can’t be sure about the random institution’s workers. So, roughly speaking, it would be not the most intelligent decision to leave someone’s item to a stranger.

But if you found that stuff at the restaurant or pub, it is a different story.

Imagine that you forget your hat at the pub. Where would you start your searching? Right, at this pub.

In that case, leaving the found item on the bar or giving it to the administration will be the right choice. A real owner can come and get back his or her lost property without any difficulty.

Visit the nearest lost-and-found. Imagine that you lost your keys, where you supposed to have an opportunity to return it? Right, at the local lost-and-found office. If you have no free time to look for the true owner, you can bring the found item there. Workers of this institution know what to do next. For example, they will return the lost ID-card to the real holder through the Passport Office.

Contact with the police service. You can make your life a lot easier by bringing someone’s property to the local police department. Leaving the found stuff at the police department will keep it safe. The officers will dedicate all efforts to trace the owner, using all the resources they have. Many people usually get found items returned to them — from lost passports to jewellery, phones etc.

Lost-And-Found Sites or how to search online

Before leaving the found stuff at the lost-and-found or the police department, try to trace the owner online. Do the best you can at searching on your own. So, let’s discover how the lost keys returning process would look like:

Sign up(it’s free) and check out the list of the lost items. Our lost-and-found software provides an opportunity to find easily and quickly. You can apply a filter you need to sort the things by categories. Maybe someone is already waiting for you. You just need to contact the owner and make an appointment.
If you didn’t find similar posts, you need to create yours. After successful registration, just choose the right photo, write a suitable text, post an ad, and wait for the feedback.

Have you ever lost something?

Go on, admit the fact that you believed with all your heart that someone would return your property to you? Did it happen?

It is a life, friend, don’t worry, whatever happens. You need to live and admit the rules of life. Yesterday you lost something, tomorrow you’ll find.

It doesn’t matter, if lost you something or found, always remember not to be selfish.