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Life lesson:

Keep a note with your email address in your wallet - clearly marked "wallet owner's email".

Paranoid version of the life lesson:

Keep a note with an anonymized email address, with forwarding set up for the message to go to your actual mailbox, in your wallet.



I stick my email-address on all valuables I could conceivably lose. Just last month the police sent me a message about a camera found in the road with my address on it. I'd been wondering for weeks where I misplaced it. It must have fallen off when I passed there with my bicycle.

The poor thing must have seen at least one bout of rain and a lot of sun judging by the ablated jacket. And it still works perfectly!


I assume your drivers license is in your wallet. You are concerned about anonymized email?


I imagine the bigger concern is that it's pretty easy to social engineer your way into most online accounts with an email and the info from a drivers license.


Even better - put a photo or even a drawing of your face on the note as well, to try and evoke some empathy from the finder, increasing the chances it'll be returned to you.


> Advanced/paranoid version of the life lesson:

This! You never know.




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