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Here is why I do not use shipping labels

admin — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 17:08:55 +0000

Using shipping labels would be organized and well-planned – who needs that? Let’s just go with the flow and discover some of the great reasons you shouldn’t use shipping labels!

A kid’s crayon is so colorful and always gets attention. When you address a package with one of your kid’s crayons, that is sure to be the package that everyone opens first. Nothing says a first class presentation like a Periwinkle crayon!

Sometimes a surprise is fun. Leave the “To” information out and leave them guessing. See just how long it takes for them to figure out the package was from you. If they really care about you – they’ll know for sure the package was yours. Really, you are doing yourself a favor with this one.

Children need to practice their handwriting. Why not let them practice addressing your packages? If the handwriting is poor – there might be some slight problem with mailing the package – but that’s just a chance we all take these days. This is the ideal time to let Junior practice their “ABCs.”

Always address packages when you have missed a night’s sleep. When you’ve been up all night with a colicky baby or working on a presentation, this is the ideal time to address your package. They say the senses are heightened when you have a lack of sleep – then again there is the lack of motor skills that some complain about. But we’re sure your package will arrive eventually.

Close your eyes and open to a page in your address book and point your finger. The name your finger points to is the person this package is really meant for. You see, had you used a shipping label you would have gotten in the way of this package’s true karma. Thank heavens for the Universe and Divine Intervention!

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What is the Point of Tagging?

Karl — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 16:02:58 +0000

Tagging your possessions is something many of us do but we fail to consider the full scale benefit to be derived from making sure our goods and chattels are identifiably ours.

Take look at some of the law enforcement statistics regarding lost and stolen property:

a tagged item is 37 times more likely to be returned to the owner than an untagged one;
92% of crimes involving stolen property result in a conviction as a direct result of tagged items being found in the possession of the criminal involved;
a tagged pet is returned to owner 90% of the time while an untagged one less than 10% of the time
more than 80% of convicted thieves surveyed have responded that they are deterred by tagging of property;
100% of convicted thieves surveyed responded they would choose to steal from an untagged property than one where tagging was practised; and
tagging is estimated to save $17 billion annually in insurance costs due to reduced payouts and premiums for policyholders.

Tagging is much more than knowing where your stuff is at when it is in the general melee of an airport baggage handling area; tagging saves you money in respect of insurance and the emotional cost when you lose an item due to misplacing it or theft. Losing stuff is a part of life and modern conveniences such as cell phones, pda’s, laptops as well as keys to the car and house fill our pockets and lives. The sheer exponential expansion in the volume of gadgetry which populates our lives has resulted in billions of dollars worth of lost or recovered stolen items finding their way into police auction events or landfill sites and not into the hands of their rightful owners every year.

Tagging can be simple and pragmatic using special markers which do not display any visible sign to detract from the aesthetic appearance of your possessions through to state of the art GPS/RFID technology which will track and locate our belongings, children and pets as soon as we realize they are missing.

Reducing the risk when your child goes missing

Karl — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 23:08:24 +0000

Over 90% of pets are tagged in the United States and this is the major reason why so many pets are returned to their owners but there is a starkly contrasting statistic when it comes to our children; less than 2% have some form of identification upon them!

Fortunately, the overwhelmingly vast majority of missing children are located and very quickly with the bulk of cases of missing children resulting from losing a child at the store or fair through to more involved family squabbles and disputes. Children are generally not exposed to a significantly higher risk of coming to harm in such cases but the impact upon parents and guardians cannot be underestimated and this is vastly increased for the child in question.

Locating a missing child and reuniting them with their family is an urgent and desperate necessity and yet so many children have nothing to identify them, not even a telephone number for home.

Identity bracelets provide a convenient and secure method of ensuring your child can be identified and more importantly has contact information for you or whoever is caring for the child in question. Many identification kits are available as part of a package of missing child prevention programs run in tandem with government agencies and voluntary organizations. Identifying your child and getting in contact with the parents is only part of the equation when it comes to reuniting a child with their family; children who have medical conditions for instance requiring regular or sporadic intervention such as diabetes or epilepsy can be carried at all times.

Fortunately, ensuring your child can be identified and you can be contacted immediately they are located is something that you are not likely to need in practice. Missing children are a common feature in our psyche simply because of the huge apparatus that exists to locate missing children when this emotional and traumatic incident occurs, however it is a rare occurrence that does not affect most children while growing up though the concern is whether it will be our own child who is lost or missing next.

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