returning found credit and store cards

[CiderMonkey]

Would you try to return credit and store cards you found? I recently found some late one night on the floor in the street in London next to a phone box. I assumed someone had dropped them while using the phone. When I got in I called the credit card 'lost card' line and had it cancelled. I asked if they could pass my number on to the person who lost them as I also had her store cards (Nectar, Tesco Clubcard etc). They said they would. A few days later I had a call from the lady and I got her address and sent the cards back to her. She was so grateful and could not believe that someone would do that. It wasn't anything special and no effort on my part - so I am wondering what other people would do?

[Hgrove]

I once found a wallet with cash and credit cards in a phone box and took it to the police station.  They made me sign a form that said that I gave up any rights to it.  The next day I found an envelope pushed through my letter box with a ten pound note (which was a reasonable reward nearly 20 years ago when I was on very low wages) and a note saying that I had restored the woman's faith in mankind.  I wonder whether the police would give out the finder's address nowadays with all this concern for confidentiality?

[andyanddeb]

found a wedding ring in a pallet of sweets once in a warehouse i worked at. After reporting it to the boss he said if unclaimed after a week to keep it. Decided to trace the delivery and report my find to the warehouse from where the pallet came from the man who had lost it was overjoyed that his wedding ring had been found 200 miles away in a pallet he had stacked 3 weeks previous. Hope someone would do the same for me.

[andy hughes]

 I would do the same thing. Forgive me name dropping, but it is relavent. I once had to interview Kiss for a magazine, and I found out after i finished that my ape machine had malfunctioned, and I had no interview. Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley were really gracious, they invited me back to their hotel amd we re-did the interview using Gene's state-of-the-art recording Walkman, they were just out back then (this was early 80's). When we finished, and I got home,I realised that I'd held onto the tape machine I'd  borrowed, a genuine error. I mailed it to the record company press agent in London with a request that it was returned to Gene Simmons, I never did find out if it was passed on to him, or just kept by the recored company PA. I know Gene Simmons is a multi-millionaire and can have any gadget he fancies, but as far as i was concerned, the machine belonged to him, and my concience dictated that I make every effort to return it to him. Maybe he got it, maybe not, but I know I did the right thing. 

[andy hughes]

That should be TAPE machine - it's 3.30 in the morning!