Tips & Ideas on Luggage Tags

Brass luggage tags are durable and elegant! How many times have those stringy cords with pieces of paper, or plastic tags on your luggage been ripped or torn off when you retrieve your bags from the luggage carousal? Brass tags stand up to the serious abuse that airline terminals dish out!

Three main topics: Security considerations with your wording, Attaching your brass luggage tags, Other uses for brass luggage tags This one's just for fun...

1. Security considerations with your wordingYou want enough information on your brass luggage tag to clearly indentify who you are and how to contact you. This allows you to know at a glance it’s really your bag on the baggage carousal, and gives lost luggage a chance to find it’s way back to you. However, please do consider whether you want your first name and address on the tag.

The traditional tag:

Barb Jones
123 My Street
Anytown, State
000-000-1234

I do not recommend putting first names on luggage tags. Consider these senarios: A man reads your first name on your luggage tag, then later aproaches you in the deserted section of the huge airport parking lot. Or he reads your first name on the tag while you were checking into a motel. Later he approaches you as you’re trying to open your motel room door. "Hey, Barb" he says, "How’s it going?". That few moments of confusion on your part could give him the advantage he is looking for to get close enough to grab your purse, or worse. If he said "Hey, B. Jones," or "Hey Jones Family" you'd be instantly on the alert!

I would also discourage putting your address on the luggage tag. Chances are, some one isn’t going to mail your luggage back to your address unless they’ve contacted you by phone first. If someone steals your luggage, it’s really obvious that you are not at the address on the tag. And now they know exactly what address you are not currently at!

If you travel as part of your business, or if the company you work for doesn’t mind, you could put the company name and phone number on the luggage tag. If your luggage was found, and the company was called, they would know who B. Jones is, and you’d have a contact while you were gone.

Here’s some safer alternatives:

The Jones Family
000-123-2211
cell 000-225-9987

B.Jones
000-123-2211
cell 000-225-9987

Bay Shore Company
B. Jones
000-311-3998

A tip to help identify your luggage quickly on the luggage carousals or at conventions: tie bright colored curly ribbons on the luggage handles. Or, if you’re artistic, paint something on both sides of your luggage.

2. Attaching your brass luggage tags

• Brass luggage tags ordered through Specialized Engraving, LLC come with gold finish metal splint rings. These are strong and won’t break or come undone from your luggage, yet allows you to remove the tag and ring for use on other items when you are not traveling.
• Leather straps are available on request. I don’t offer them as a standard option though, since they can come unbuckled or rip if caught in the conveyor belt.
• If the brass luggage tag is going to stay permenently on your luggage or pet crate, etc, you can use those plastic pull through ties which allow you to zinch the tag tightly against the luggage, crate, or carrier.

3. Other uses for brass luggage tags Brass luggage tags can identify more than just your luggage. Use luggage tags on cameras and camera bags; laptop and brief cases; gym and golf bags; fishing and tool boxes; pet crates and carriers; binders and daytimers; to identify gas cans for the lawn mower, week wacker and auto; day packs, back packs; and lot of other things! If you find a neat and unusual use for your tag, send me an email!

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