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.

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