Lost keys etc.

[rainbow2]

I am sure I saw a type of keyring/service several years ago that, if you had found the attached keys, asked you to post them in a letter box and they would be returned to the owner. I think there might have been some reward as well for doing this. Does anyone know of this, or was I just imagining it? The reason I ask is that my elderly mother-in-law is always losing her free bus pass (she has to pay £10 each time to get another one). She uses the bus every day and does not drive. I wonder whether there is some type of keyring or service that would enable her to get the lost bus pass returned to her.
Obviously, it would depend on the cost of the service whether it would be useful to her or not.

[paddiez]

Some insurance companies and banks issue these tags for keyrings. Got mine from Halifax

[coccinelle]

Isn't an address written on the bus pass? Might be a silly question but I've never seen a bus pass.
She might be better off putting the pass on a key-ring which is attached to her coat in some way then she won't be able to drop it.

[heathfield]

Can't you just put a name and address sticky label on the back of the bus pass, with a request to ''Please return if found'' message? I'd warn against having a name and address label on a keyring. Some dishonest person could find the keys, pay a visit, and make off with the house contents.

[another-view]

yes you could put your name and address on the back and also what times you will be out of the house so the finder would know not to call round when you were out :-)

[another-view]

i was joking. Hence the smiley face.

[ChuckFickens]

think it might have been sarcasm!

[tamborine]

Wear it all round your neck.....or get a key fob & write your phone number on it.

[bookbinder]

Try this company:
Card Protection Plan Limited, Holgate Park, York, YO26 4GA.
www.cpp.co.uk
Telephone: [phone]
I have a credit card protection policy with CPP, and, apart from providing cover for my cards, they also gave me key tags (metal) that have a freepost address stamped on them. CPP know whose keys they are by the policy number that is also stamped on the tag, but the finder of the keys does not know my address. I don't know if you have to take out a card policy, and you get the tags free, or if you can just get the tags. Best of luck.

[society]

putting name and address on the bus pass is a set up for thief in the home, and identity thief. and putting the time when not to call is also telling the finder it's safe to break-in, i'm not around.

i would only put the phone number.

[rainbow2]

Thanks for all your replies, some of them helpful (and some of them not!). Bookbinder, that is exactly the sort of thing I was thinking about. The key fob with just a phone number sounds a good idea as well, Tamborine.

[Toureman]

I have the system you want through Barclaycard, they also supply metal key tags and also labels to be glued on your wallet or even a bus pass !

They just have a code on them, you post them and then they are retuned to you.

[another-view]

society - I was obviously joking. Only a fool would put their name, address and what time they were out on something.

[Naomicorlett]

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk...0a0e203e43c74fd16ca72

Would something like this work if she clipped it to her handbag and just pulled it out to show driver. I use somethuing very similar for my gym pass as I kept losing it in the depths of my gym bag.

[Naomicorlett]

PS you would have to punch hole in corner of pass and thread ring onto it but shoud work.

[SlackAlice]

Depends on the type of pass, but many of them are now based on the Oystercard system and are read/scanned by the ticket machine. Punching holes in them tends to make them fail.
Why not try a student/id card holder with the long cords. Could threadle the cord to her handbag or simply wear it around the neck.