Remember when travelling safely meant refraining from writing your full name and address on your luggage tag? Back in the day, adults would have you believe that any number of sneaky burglars frequenting airports could catch sight of the tag, memorise your address, watch you venture through the departure gate then go to your home and pinch all your belongings.
The overzealous parents of one childhood friend used to write a fictitious address on their bag tags. To what end, it’s hard to say. I still wonder what would have happened had an airline ever attempted to return their lost luggage to the fake address.
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Fiona Carruthers has written and edited travel for the Financial Review for almost a decade. She has held senior roles with ABC Radio National, Deutsche Welle Radio, TIME and The Australian, and was deputy editor of Traveller. Email Fiona at fcarruthers@afr.com
