(edit part)...What is the best thing to put in your wallet so someone that finds your wallet can contact you? Your phone number OK? Your e-mail address OK? I don't think your personal address is OK anymore?ThanksI don’t have in my wallet anyway for somebody to contact me if I loose my wallet. In today’s society is it a good idea to have a slip of paper having your address or phone number, so the finder of your wallet could contact you. Can your name and address do any harm?(more info) Found a purse (wallet) today, full of credit cards, tons of gift cards, driver license etc. Not a scrap of paperwork inside. I have no way of getting in touch with the owner. To me looks like somebody stole it and took all the paper money and throw wallet in a parking lot of an auto part store. I don’t want to assume, but being wallet belongs to a women, I just don’t see very many women in auto part stores. I called number on the back of one credit card and told them. Suggested and left my phone number with them. So they could contact their card holder, and she could call me. They said they would just cancel the card. I waited on hold for about 5 or so min. to get a live operator. I’m not going to call 14 other credit card type places. I’ll mail wallet to the address on her drivers license Monday. I know we travel with 2 credit cards and only one is in my wallet, just in case.

Mailing back to the address on the drivers license seems like a nice thing to do.You could always search the phone book for the name & address (they still have it on the internet).

Gonzo42 wrote:Contact the local police.This.Police can track the license, go to his place, and say "look, somebody found your wallet". Case closed.

i left my wallet on top of the car, when refueling.drove off and drove for about 5 miles when i realized what i had done.drove back and spent 2 hours looking for it but never found it.less than a day later, my insurance agent called saying that a local sheriff had it and he gave me his number.the sheriff told me a woman was walking her dog and found it along a bike path. she contacted the local sheriff's office and dropped it off. she told him she wanted to stay anonymous. when i got it back, everything was still in it. nothing missing.it's nice to know that there are still good and honest people out there.so, my advice is to contact law enforcement and have them contact the owner or someone like their insurance agent.

valhalla360 wrote:Mailing back to the address on the drivers license seems like a nice thing to do....................................Many, many years ago I lost my wallet in a movie theater and that is how my wallet was returned to me. Not a thing was missing, not even the few bucks cash I had earned as a teenager.The sad part was, I had no way of thanking the honest and thoughtful person who found my wallet.

Contacting owner of lost wallet. What is best way.

valhalla360
Navigator
Nov 06, 2017
Mailing back to the address on the drivers license seems like a nice thing to do.

You could always search the phone book for the name & address (they still have it on the internet).
Gonzo42
Explorer
Nov 06, 2017
Contact the local police.
obgraham
Explorer
Nov 06, 2017
Gonzo42 wrote:
Contact the local police.
This.
Police can track the license, go to his place, and say "look, somebody found your wallet". Case closed.
bikendan
Explorer
Nov 06, 2017
i left my wallet on top of the car, when refueling.
drove off and drove for about 5 miles when i realized what i had done.
drove back and spent 2 hours looking for it but never found it.

less than a day later, my insurance agent called saying that a local sheriff had it and he gave me his number.
the sheriff told me a woman was walking her dog and found it along a bike path. she contacted the local sheriff's office and dropped it off. she told him she wanted to stay anonymous.

when i got it back, everything was still in it. nothing missing.
it's nice to know that there are still good and honest people out there.

so, my advice is to contact law enforcement and have them contact the owner or someone like their insurance agent.
3oaks
Explorer
Nov 06, 2017
valhalla360 wrote:
Mailing back to the address on the drivers license seems like a nice thing to do....................................
Many, many years ago I lost my wallet in a movie theater and that is how my wallet was returned to me. Not a thing was missing, not even the few bucks cash I had earned as a teenager.

The sad part was, I had no way of thanking the honest and thoughtful person who found my wallet.
dodge_guy
Explorer II
Nov 06, 2017
UMM! the license is in the wallet, so that seems to be the contact info you need.
Bumpyroad
Explorer
Nov 06, 2017
dodge guy wrote:
UMM! the license is in the wallet, so that seems to be the contact info you need.

as homer would say, DOH.
bumpy
Crowe
Explorer
Nov 06, 2017
as homer would say, DOH.

No need to be rude. Not everyone has a driver's license or carries a picture ID with them.

If you have a driver's license then no additional form of ID is necessary. If you find someone else's wallet I would agree to take it to the local PD. I found a wallet a few years ago but it was someone who lived in my town so I just drove it to their house. If you want to try and call them you can sometimes do a search by name and/or address on anywho.com. It used to work great but now some other websites have blocked access and you have to pay to get info (illegal IMHO because it's public info).
Blutoyz
Explorer
Nov 06, 2017
I haven't tested this but I was told years ago if you just drop it in a mailbox the postal service will forward to the owner
nineoaks2004
Explorer
Nov 06, 2017
I found a Bible and wallet along side of the road, looked inside the wallet and found DL, took it to the owner (a Preacher) who accused ME of stealing his stuff I told him I wasn't stupid and if I had stolen them why the heck would I return them. It Gave me a sour taste in my throat, after that I would give the item /s to a police man.