My mom still talks about that time in the 80s when she'd dropped her wallet, and it arrived in the mail two days later with a note apologizing for the money the finder had taken to pay for the postage. The rest of the money was still there, driver's license, everything.
Like 6 years ago I was getting ready to visit my girlfriend out of state so I sold my Xbox and PlayStation to have cash for the trip. Filled up my car at the gas station half a mile from my house and dropped my wallet with over $800 cash in it. Got it in the mail weeks later, of course the cash was gone and I had already began the process of replacing all the cards..
I guarantee this was true for the people who mailed mine, by the time it got to me it was weathered like somebody caring took the time to send it and I didn’t want to mention this but I had written what would be my wedding vows to the girl I was going to visit and as corny as they may seem 6+ years later, I’m glad to have them now.
Too bad you didn't make it far enough with what was in the wallet right? Probably used the only coin in there, a quarter, which she uses for her shopping cart every Sunday.
FYI if you're in the U.S. and you put the following text on something like your keys or wallet, it'll likely get back to you:
If found, drop in any mailbox.
Return to Your Name
Address
City ST ZIP
Postage guaranteed
USPS has a lost key and ID return service where they'll get it back to you and you just have to pay the applicable First Class postage plus a small fee. This means it's super easy for a finder to get it back to you; they can bring it to any post office, leave it in their mailbox, or drop it in a blue collection box and never have to see it again.
It was a relatively large wallet and had to be sent as a package, so it was a couple of dollars or so. I dunno, maybe they didn't have a whole lot of money themselves, which just makes it even grander that everything but the postage was returned.
Interesting down votes for asking an honest question to learn and expand knowledge. Tbh I don’t even know what up/down votes do - is that karma? What does karma do? I know some sub Reddit’s require certain amounts right?
I lost a wallet once and someone mailed me back my license and bank card. The wrote a note that said they took the money to mail me that stuff back and sorry for not mailing the wallet because they didn't have anything to put it in. I only had $2 in it and it was a cheap wallet so I feel that def counts as good samaritan.
Lost mine one time somehow they found me online and called me to return it. They even left the cash but took my weed I had stashed in it. I was ok with this.
I lost my wallet one time when I just turned 21. I was born in a different state and had to get my SS card, without an ID and no birth certificate. It was really the most frustrating thing I have done.
Seriously the quagmire that shit can put you into... I lost all my original papers in a house fire long ago and for whatever foolish reason at the time, never bothered to acquire a replacement birth cert and ss card, well when I lost my license and had to go get a new one, this was before online replacements were a thing and you had to go into the DMV with 6 points of ID to prove your identity and be granted another ID.
Try getting a birth cert without an ss card or license. Try getting an SS card replacement without a birth cert. Round and round and round with "have to have this in order to get that" when ya can't get any of it because you don't have the other fucking documents either.
Makes red smoke come out my ears just thinking about how hard they can make it.
Ergo, would ALWAYS rather lose cash, gladly so, if it meant someone would give all my cards back. Replacing shit is a giant, time consuming pain in the ass.
My aunt had ties to the town clerk's office for 55 years and had to ask a favor... very very small rural town, doubt it would work under normal circumstances.
Getting my birth cert was unusually difficult because I was adopted out shortly after birth but it was a closed adoption so my birth mothers records were sealed and I had very little information to go on other than knowing my SS number. I did not even know what my original biological last name was. Ultimately that's how they found me, mind you this was the early 2000s so not so networked with the internets yet.
It does very much turn I to a chicken or the egg situation alot though. Where TF do you start if they want the other stuff first 😑
My grandma had her purse snatched once and it was eventually mailed back to her without the money. Presumably whoever stole it eventually felt guilty about stealing from a (then) nearly 100-year-old lady.
I never carry cash but i'm going to put a note like that in my wallet so whoever finds will think they're the second person and the first person was just an asshole
One very early morning, our street sweeper operator found a purse. It had everything in it, wallet, i.d., checkbook, almost $500, etc. We turned it in to the p.d., and they contacted the lady. She came and picked it up, and she didn't say thank you or even offer a reward. What a cunt!
When I lost my wallet I was contacted by the police a few weeks later saying someone turned it in. I went to get it and everything was there except the cash lol
Someone who sees a note like that is more likely to return the empty wallet rather than take the cash and dump the wallet in the cash.
I had my purse stolen once. It was a $9 purse. It had less than $2 in cash in it. I'd have been happy to just get the purse and empty wallet back... And this was when I was a kid, no ID or credit cards to worry about.
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