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Where did you lose it?
A phone left in a taxi and a phone left at the office need completely different actions in the first hour. These are the ones that matter.
an Uber or taxi
How to get something back you left in an Uber or taxi
This has a genuine deadline. A car does twenty more journeys today, and every one of them is a chance for your thing to …
a plane
How to find something you left on a plane
Overhead lockers and seat pockets account for most of it, and the recovery process is dictated by whether you are still …
a train
How to find something you left on a train
Items handed in on trains travel to a central depot rather than staying at the station, so searching the platform is usu…
a bus
How to find something you left on a bus
Items handed to a driver go to the depot at the end of the shift, which is usually the same day.…
a restaurant or bar
How to find something you left in a restaurant or bar
The single most useful fact about venue lost property: the table gets cleared and swept at close, so the item is often n…
a cinema or theatre
How to find something you left in a cinema or theatre
The room is cleaned between screenings and anything found goes to a front-of-house box, so the window between your scree…
the beach
How to find something you lost at the beach
Outdoor range is far better than indoors, which makes a scan genuinely useful across an open beach, right up until the …
a park
How to find something you lost in a park
With no walls and no metal, Bluetooth reaches much further than it does indoors, which turns a large area into a solvabl…
a festival or event
How to find something you lost at a festival
Two things work against you at a festival: thousands of human bodies absorbing 2.4 GHz, and a site that is physically re…
an office
How to find something you left at the office
Office buildings are the ideal case for a systematic radio search, because concrete floors block Bluetooth well enough t…
a school
How to find something a child left at school
The volume is the problem. A single school lost property box holds hundreds of items and nothing in it is labelled.…
an airport
How to find something you lost in an airport
The commonest mistake is contacting the airline about something lost at security, or the terminal about something left o…
a rental car
How to find something you left in a rental car
The turnaround is the whole problem. A returned car is valeted and back out within hours, and anything found goes into a…
a swimming pool
How to find something you left at a swimming pool
Two separate problems: things left in a locker or on a bench, and things dropped in water. Only one of them is findable …
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