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Back in the 80s/90s I recall my parents getting carried away with a fad of marking valuable personal objects with house number and postcode (in the same fashion
by petercooper 4y ago
Back in the 80s/90s I recall my parents getting carried away with a fad of marking valuable personal objects with house number and postcode (in the same fashion as in this post) so they could be identified if stolen. Apparently it's still a thing – https://www.immobilise.com/ https://www.immobilise.com/ – but I haven't personally heard about anyone doing it in decades.
In my building, mail for all flats gets delivered to the same postbox, so we don’t need the flat part.
You do if you don't want one of the other residents taking and opening it instead..(!) ;-)
- bombcar 4y agoThe little tags you can put on your keychain for your grocery store rewards card often have a "postage guaranteed" line on them, if someone finds your keys I guess they can throw them in a mailbox and it'll get back to the grocery store and then they can forward them on to you. I've never tried it personally.
- djhworld 4y agoI remember my parents doing this too, I think there may have been some national campaign or promotion at the time to get the marking pens for free.