Luggage tagging

My husband, Ed, and I always have an ID on our suitcase carrying handle plus another luggage tag taped onto either the bag or on the pull-behind handle. Why two luggage tags? In case our luggage is lost and one tag has been pulled off, there is still another one to be read.

As we are leaving home, on each ID we put our name and the name and address of our first location abroad. We do not want our luggage going back to our house when we are in, say, Russia.

For our return trip, we remove those hotel address tags and put on our home address ID tags, which we’ve kept inside our suitcases.

I realize we are somewhat paranoid about ID issues; however, we travel a LOT and had all types of lost or misdelivered luggage issues until we began using these techniques.

GLORIA HELMUTH

Tulsa, OK