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A lady who tracked her misplaced baggage with AirTag has been reunited along with her belongings, however solely after she gained important media consideration.
Valerie Szybala lately took to Twitter to doc how United Airways misplaced her baggage, then proceeded to insist she was incorrect about the place the monitoring machine stated it was.
Now, the story appears to finish fortunately, with Szybala reporting that her baggage had been returned to her as of Monday afternoon.
WHEW this has been a wild experience y’all. I am pleased to report that I obtained my bag again!!! I will give extra particulars & classes discovered later. For now wanna say thanks for the entire assist, and shout out to the constructing resident and native information crews who got here out to assist =) pic.twitter.com/hCDXMreiDC
— valerie szybala. (@vszyb) January 2, 2023
Beforehand, Szybala’s AirTag confirmed her bag at a residential condo, regardless that United Airways insisted that the bag was “secure on the Supply companies distribution heart.”
Later, the bag was tracked to a McDonalds, a shopping mall, after which returned to the condo complicated.
In response to Szybala, she returned to the condo complicated accompanied by a neighborhood information crew when she acquired a “sketchy” textual content from somebody claiming to be a courier. The courier informed her the bag had been erroneously delivered to a unique passenger.
The courier returned her bag, which was nonetheless locked and had all its contents. Szybala didn’t query the courier’s story as she was “too excited to have [her] bag to ask whether or not he’d had all of it weekend.”
She ends the Twitter thread by telling vacationers to make use of a monitoring machine like AirTag and {photograph} their belongings within the occasion that they should file a reimbursement declare.
This isn’t the primary time that AirTags have revealed surprising journeys of the bags they’re positioned in. In June 2022, one man tracked down his lacking baggage to an workplace in Melbourne Airport. Then in August 2022, a pair visiting Portugal reported that their baggage obtained to see extra of the nation than they did.
Additionally, in late 2022, Lufthansa briefly banned AirTags on a hopefully mistaken interpretation of FCC rules relating to batteries. It then reversed the choice.
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