1. Shopping bags, light cardboard boxes, and cheap luggage simply don’t hold up. Like anything else, you get what you pay for.

2. Do not write your home address on outside ID tags. Burglars don’t need to know you’re away. Instead, legibly write only your name & all phones, including cell.

3 Put bag ID tags inside your luggage, as well as outside. Same for carry on bags. If outside tags come off, agents will search inside a lost bag for contact information.

4. No wine, water, or booze in your bags. Unless packaged by the winery, it breaks more times than not; It leaks on your other goodies, and on the bag next to yours. As an added bonus, the broken glass chews up your other packed items. So have it packed or drink it instead.

5. Don’t check your house and car keys, medicine, passports or money. Instead, carry the family jewels with you, along with a fresh change of undies.

6. Read the destination on the bag tag. Is it correct? If gate checked at the last minute, is the connecting flight (if any) and final destination correct?

7. Watch the agent attach the destination tag. Bags with no tag, or with loose tags that come off, get delayed or lost.

8. Luggage looks alike – even with cute & colorful ribbons. So, please match the number on your bag claim check to the one on the bag.

9. Here’s a tip about tips. That $2 charge you pay for curb side bag isn’t a tip. And the curb side agent wearing the United Airlines uniform is not employed by United. United takes those two buck charges away from the curbside workers.

10. Fifty pounds is the limit, even internationally. Weigh yourself at home. Then weigh you & your bag together. Is the difference more than 50 lbs? If so, it costs time & money.

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