Use Free Luggage Tags For Marking

RE: Use Free Luggage Tags For Marking Post by hsorbits (35) | (03/29/2007) Profile | Contact Please take a look at your original "tip". When does a fistful become a few? Why would you need luggage tags AND stickers if you are not traveling? How can an airline's advertising be effective if you are using the tags & stickers for labeling your personal items? Anything that increases the cost of doing business, including advertising, will eventually be offset by increasing prices. A good example is that airlines have begun charging passengers for pillows and blankets to be used during flights. The reason? Folks like you felt entitled to take them because they were offered...for use during the flight, not as gifts or prizes for flying with them. Have you noticed that the headphones now have to be purchased, as well? It hasn't always been that way. When people were more honest and returned things they had borrowed they were offered free of charge. Now they have to charge us because so many are stolen. Therefore it is still stealing whether you grab a few or a fistful! "" RE: Use Free Luggage Tags For Marking Post by pamphyila (165) | (03/29/2007) Profile | Blog! | Contact Gee wiz - I never expected such a negative reaction - most of the time I am there I am a customer or am with a customer - and I would never take any if the supply was running low and I only take a few. I seems to me that if they are out in open bins, they can't be too worried about people taking more than one for their luggage - otherwise they would dole them out. Plus, they are getting free advertising when I cart around my items with their luggage tags - the point of most freebies, anyway...Like matches and pencils, and the like. When they stop being advertising, strange thing, they stop being there free for you to take. I don't think luggage tags are the reason for rising airlines prices - it has more to do with de-regulation and gas prices...but that's another discussion.... RE: Use Free Luggage Tags For Marking Post by Katie A. (149) | (03/28/2007) Profile | Blog! | Contact That's stealing. RE: Use Free Luggage Tags For Marking Post by hsorbits (35) | (03/28/2007) Profile | Blog! | Contact I'm sorry, but I have to say it again: it is NEVER right to take a handful of anything just because it is free. If you are not taking 1 tag for each piece of luggage that you are taking with you on a flight leaving that same day, you are stealing those tags! The tags are for CUSTOMERS ONLY. They are available for those folks who have forgotten to tag their luggage beforehand. It's a shame so many folks who complain about the rising costs of goods and services are the same ones who create the price increases. Believe it or not, the tags are NOT FREE to the airline - it costs money to provide them to paying customers after you have stolen those you are so proud of!