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Many have experienced that moment of dread at the baggage carousel: the last bag spins by, and it's not yours. While airlines are incredibly efficient, reuniting over 99.5% of bags with their owners, a tiny fraction—less than 0.03% of all checked luggage—takes a different path. These truly "orphaned" bags embark on a journey that ultimately leads to Unclaimed Baggage, a unique store where lost items find new homes. The Fascinating Journey of Lost Luggage For a bag to end up at Unclaimed Baggage, it first goes through an extensive three-month search by the airline. If the owner can't be found, the airline pays out a claim to the passenger, and only then is the bag officially deemed unclaimed. Unclaimed Baggage has agreements with all domestic airlines and other travel companies to acquire these items. With five decades of experience, they process a massive volume of unique finds, aiming to give them a second life. Once the unclaimed bags arrive, they are systematically...

At Scan Note App headquarters, we hate losing things.  The sinking feeling, the frantic search, and the occasional repurchase can be avoided if we take the right precautions. The most common ways to keep track of our things are to use Bluetooth® trackers and name tags.  We’ve tried both and while they have their merits, there are some downsides to each approach. Bluetooth trackers have been popular in recent years and do what they were designed for very well.  They rely on a network of devices to detect and report the location of trackers nearby.  When you lose something attached to a Bluetooth tracker, as long as someone with the right app has passed nearby the tracker and the tracker has sufficient battery power, you can see its last reported location. There were over 55 million AirTags in circulation in 2022.  ( https://finance.yahoo.com/news/apple-airtags-bluetooth-trackers-officially-175911565.html ) That number has only grown since then.  They are ...