How much more effort?

[Stewart Fan]

Walking my daughter to school yesterday,something catches my eye. Its a debit card laying next to the curb. A few feet further is a credit card,drivers license,health insurance card and whats left of a cell phone. Its all obviously been in the road a while.

I pick it all up and get my daughter to school. I'm wondering what I'm going to do with all this stuff,when it dawns on me to try Facebook. I do a search for the ladie's name and bam, there she is.

She has posted that she doesn't know where her wallet is,its either lost or stolen. I try sending her a message,but I know that since we're not "friends" it won't go to her inbox,and likely won't be seen. I wait a few hours and send her a friends request. I figured maybe she is like so many on Facebook and having a thousand friends is meaningful to her and she'll accept the request from someone she doesn't know. Then I can send her a message she'll see.

She has since posted that she cancelled the CC and DC,and has gotten a new license. As far as I'm concerned,I've put forth an effort to return the items to her. My next step is to just shred the CC,DC,and license and go on about my day.

Thoughts?

 

[Quattro Pete]

How far away from you does she live? If not too far, I would have just driven over there and handed the stuff over. Otherwise, I would have probably mailed it all to the address on her driver's license.

But since she has already cancelled all her cards and gotten a new license, then I guess it makes no sense to do it at this point.

 

[CharBaby]

You did the right thing by trying to contact her. Yes, shred everything so others can't use a single piece of this lady's information to obtain a single thing!'

If you do try to contact her and are successful, give her the items and let her destroy them herself.

 

[BowNisPar]

Shred on.

 

[bepperb]

Drop it off at the police station, then it isn't your problem no matter what. I think the facebook attempt was clever, but really?

 

[Stewart Fan]

Originally Posted By: Quattro Pete
How far away from you does she live? If not too far, I would have just driven over there and handed the stuff over. Otherwise, I would have probably mailed it all to the address on her driver's license.

But since she has already cancelled all her cards and gotten a new license, then I guess it makes no sense to do it at this point.


According to her Facebook post,after a recent move she needed a new license anyway. The address on her license is incorrect.

 

[andrewg]

Originally Posted By: bepperb
Drop it off at the police station, then it isn't your problem no matter what. I think the facebook attempt was clever, but really?

Do you live in New York City or some place similar where people are afraid to be friendly and helpful?

 

[bepperb]

Originally Posted By: andrewg
Originally Posted By: bepperb
Drop it off at the police station, then it isn't your problem no matter what. I think the facebook attempt was clever, but really?

Do you live in New York City or some place similar where people are afraid to be friendly and helpful?


I'm not sure shredding my stuff after trying to befriend me on facebook is friendly and helpful. I think dropping it off at the station is convenient and the right thing to do. If the person contacts them reporting it stolen they can give it back. If it were stolen then they know where it ended up. If they shred it then you're not liable.

 

[Clevy]

Originally Posted By: BowNisPar
Shred on.



Yep. If she wasn't interested in accepting the friend request and thus getting her stuff back just shred the stuff. Your still doing her a favour by keeping that stuff from less honest hands and you've made an honest effort to get her stuff back to her.

 

[bullwinkle]

I had this happen once, found the address-knocked & rang the doorbell, could hear voices but no one answered. Shoved everything under the door (it was an apartment). Considering the neighborhood, probably lucky nobody shot at me.

 

[simple_gifts]

Originally Posted By: bepperb
Drop it off at the police station, then it isn't your problem no matter what. I think the facebook attempt was clever, but really?


I guess the use of the phone is so 20th century.

Drop it off @ a trusted 3rd party that can contact her.

 

[gathermewool]

Shred it.

She didn't accept your friend request, but obviously has such poor security that she allows complete strangers to view her posts?

Seriously, if anyone here hasn't done so already or recently, check your Facebook security settings and change everything so that only friends (or friends and friends of friends if you want to be particularly risky) can view your person information, including posts.

Now, I know we all share some personal information on here, but hopefully it's intentional. Many people on Facebook don't even know who can view their information, let alone worry about whether what they're posting is appropriate or sensitive.

 

[friendly_jacek]

Once I found a wallet with $20, condom, and out of state DL. I tried to send the whole thing to the address on the DL, but it came back as undeliverable. I assumed fake ID and through it away.

 

[OneEyeJack]

A previous post had it correct. Drop it all off at the local police station and be done with it.

 

[Mr Nice]

Shred the info and forget about it.