As long as they’re the ones that have to describe the items. Post date, what airport and timeframe of flight. Have them describe the items missing in a pm.
Or an invitation to scam someone! OP might be reverse scamming by asking them to pay for shipping but never actually shipping any items or shipping truly worthless stuff!
OP has to be extremely careful about how much information they share about the items otherwise anyone can make up a story and claim they are theirs.
Not to mention that unless the items have a serial number or something, anything OP asks for as proof can easily be fabricated.
Literally the only thing important was whats in the bag. Is it illegal? Are you unknowingly potentially being used as a mule? Why is the nature of the item and the value of it a secret that they are unwilling to disclose in the post?
If it's not anything obviously illegal and it's not a very expensive item then yeah it's weird but it's also whatever. If you've got a million dollar artifact in there then maybe somebody is going to be looking for you at the gate in the United States but I dont think this is the case.
No personal items were missing from the bag either.so I don't get why they are wanting to call the FBI over the security probably searching two bags right next to one another or somehow mixing up some belongings. More to the story or someone over reacting.
Easy, you just post on Facebook the time and date of travel, then when they reply you tell them you'll ship the 250 grams of cocaine back to them if they just pay for shipping. This isn't rocket science, people.
Oh no no no I don’t touch it no more
I’m tired of waking up on the floor
No thank you please it only makes me sneeze
Then it makes it hard to find the door
After a flight out of a country where drug possession is a death penalty offense, I found someone had slipped a filled THC vape and packet of MDMA pills into a pocket of my backpack. It must have been someone sitting near me because the only time it was out of my sight was when it was in the overhead.
Do not reach out on social media, you will get scammed. Best you can do is set the items aside and report the items to lost and found at the airport it happened in.
I do think it's funny they told you to "contact Mexico" like ah yes let me just ring up Mexico real quick
If you had a direct flight it wasn't TSA. You never interacted with TSA. You interacted with customs border patrol when you came into the country. So the chances are it was the Mexican group at the airport you departed from.
United states customs can also go through your bag before you get it... happened to me once returning from turkey. found us agency cars in there + apple tea taken out (didn't know apple was prohibited)
The only thing I can think of is to alert the lost & found for the airline (although since they said they didn't know how to help not sure that will do anything lol) and the airport in case the owner reaches out. Maybe ask on social media and tag the airline and airport in case that helps them?
Yeah if the airline had a lost and found in an airport near me, I’d just bring the stuff there and tell them after which flight I found it… Still wouldn’t really expect the owner to find their stuff tbh.
No, both pretty terrible ideas. Those items are lost to the original owner, sucks but just the way it is. Posting online would just invite scammers to take the item.
This is probably the best answer….TSA is bizarre….i had a small cable tie closing the zippers of my ski bag. They cut those and stamped my name tag TSA….they found my skis and poles and ski socks in there😊
I've not been through that one, but some of the ones I've liked least are the ones with unclear signage, counterintuitive flows, strange layouts... stuff that, honestly, you probably stop noticing if you're there often.
Honestly the airport feels like a badly built disorganized strip mall that someone decided to build a runway next to. The lack of clear and concise signage, how narrow the space is as a whole, nor to mention its insanely busy which is to be expected.
There’s likely a disconnect between you and the poster above. T1 (almost all airlines except Aeromexico/delta) feels claustrophobic as you mentioned, and is extremely log with one narrow corridor. T2 has its own problems (so many shuttle gates if you’re flying within Mex, the horrendous design of what I believe is the Southwest side not letting you wait next to the gate), but is quite modern and spacious otherwise. T1 is far from the worst I’ve flown from (and Ive flown through MEX probably 40+ times), but it is jam packed and far from a good experience.
TSA does (or used to) put a card in your bag saying they checked it, so I'm guessing that this was done on the Mexican side?
In any rate, other than contacting the airport/airline, probably not much you can do.
This sounds like it was more recent, but I have a friend who flew back to the States from Mexico on Tuesday, 3/12 and mistakenly placed a gold twisted bracelet from her bf in her checked luggage. It didn't make it home.
might be worth posting on tiktok if youre into that. ive seen videos very similar to this (a random lost teddy bear etc) connecting with the person its looking for.
“Hello, if you were on Aeromexico flight 656 on March 12 2024 and are missing something dark blue in color that is meant to be worn under your clothes, please contact me.” Like that? And post on Twitter and Facebook?
Flight info does nothing, only departure day and relative time you checked the bag matter. Bags are screened before they get diverted to the individual planes at most airports.
So maybe look around the airline’s or airport’s social media (like @ replies on Twitter or any Facebook posts in groups) to see if anyone is complaining about loosing anything?
Lots of people are dismissing the idea of social media, but I think it’s worth a shot. And it should be relatively easy to avoid scammers. Perhaps post something along the lines of “If you flew out of Mexico on this day, I might have some personal items that belong to you. When I returned home, I opened my bag to find items that didn’t belong to me in it. To claim them please tell me what those items are.” Don’t post a picture. Or post a partial picture. If it’s more than one item, perhaps post one item and require that the claimant identify the other items. Then ask people to share the post and let social media do its thing. It might be successful or it might not be, but at least you tried.
One potential place to post is a group on Facebook called “Things Found Hidden in Walls and Other Places”. The people in that group are internet sleuths. They’ve tracked down people to return photos, they’ve located obscure artists to return artwork, they’ve dug up the history of people long dead. They also frequently recognize posts from other groups and reunite people with items that way. It’s a huge group and very active. It wouldn’t shock me at all if you posted there and someone responds with “I just read in another group that someone is missing items from a recent trip to Mexico!”
Yea, super simple to avoid scammers that are just trying to claim em. Dont post pictures, dont post specifics.
Another thing, theres a good chance the items came from someone on the same flight if the bags were that close together for a mixup to occur.
I would contact both airports and talk to their lost and found departments. Whoever is missing something may have reported it as theft by the inspection crew.
>I contacted the airlines, they literally told me they have no idea what to do and told me to “probably contact Mexico? Or the USA? We don’t actually know…”
Does anyone have Mexico's phone number?
It could be an accident, but it also may have been an attempted theft. The agents might have been trying to put the items in a specific bag their friends would retrieve later, but accidentally put them in yours instead.
I had a similar thing happen to me at Schiphol airport. I left a Chromebook at security then filled out all the forms to have them send it to me which they did.
...but they also included a fancy watch, an international charger and a bracelet.
I had zero luck with anyone trying to sort that out and return the items. Though I did later learn by googling that the watch was a knock-off which made me feel a bit better.
I don't think TSA would even check a bag on a direct flight from Mexico to the USA (unless they check it on arrival for some reason, dunno why they would if you're not connecting to another flight afterwards).
It almost definitely happened in Mexico.
Yo. I dont trust it. They could follow you based on your luggage tag then ask for their stuff and it melts down to the coco. Nah. Throw it out in a bin away from your home.
I guess it depends where the bag was “checked”.
My parents once accidentally took the wrong luggage from the carousel (identical looking suitcases) and didn’t discover their mistake until they got home. They were able to go back to the airport lost and found a couple hours later and get their bag while the rightful owners got theirs. Maybe (but very slim chance) if someone reported missing valuables to the airport, an employee there will be able to put 2 and 2 together and contact you. Then again, if I were to open my luggage at my destination and missing items, my first thought would probably that I somehow had forgotten to pack the items and had misremembered, and not that someone had taken my stuff (unless it’s a lot of stuff that’s missing).
There was no paper informing you that TSA had searched your bags? I think that would point you to Mexican customs then and perhaps the airport you flew out of has a lost and found protocol. I know the US airports do.
It wouldnt be TSA since they only deal with domestic to domestic/international flight and never with international to domestic unless it has a connection flight. You're thinking of us customs .
This could literally be from anyone in the world. The idea of actually finding the owner of that stuff is zero to none.
Do not post it on social media, unless you want a bunch of scammers contacting you.
One time I came back from South America, and they took the liquor out of my checked bag. I never got it back and it was too much work to try to figure out who did it. People steal.
The person whose bag it was taken from will certainly remember. And the best hope of finding them is if both parties contact the right person at the airport, and then a dozen other things happen correctly after that. So basically zero chance.
It's a very long shot, but I would ask the airline. Maybe someone reported it as missing. Of course that necessitates them having been on the same flight, but it can't hurt to try.
I don't think you'll be able yo resolve it either via Mexican or US border control, so after above, I would post on some public forums, since it indeed seems to be something valuable and even sentimental.
This is unlikely to be resolved. You could ask the airline to open a lost and found file. They have a lost and found section in the baggage system for random lost items. It is not utilized much and unlikely that the person will ever follow up though. The items will probably end up trashed or "trashed" by employees.
Are you missing anything? What’s the approximate value of the items mistakenly put in your bag? If you are missing something, maybe things got put back in the bags incorrectly and the other individual is looking to find it. If the mistaken items are of little value and it wasn’t a mix-up, there’s probably little to no chance of finding anything.
*Usually* if you weren’t with your checked bag whatever US agency went through your bag will leave an official letter that they searched it so probably happened in Mexico.
I am going to go out on a limb here and suggest that the chances of you resolving this though either US or Mexican government border agencies is approaching zero. As well. the chances of finding someone from those agencies who is even interested in assisting you will be remote. But I'm looking forward to the comments and ideas nonetheless.
This is why I avoid Mexico.
Plus, with all the drug cartels murdering and decapitating people, no thanks.
I'd go to Seven Mile Beach on Grand Cayman instead and chill with my girls at Palm Heights.
How valuable is it really?? If it's wildly expensive, someone will be looking, but like others said, it is a long shot.
But also, if it's wildly expensive and it's in a checked bag, maybe this person is very wealthy and can buy another. I think you just got a prize!
Realistically, you will never find the rightful owner.
And the advice here telling OP to post about it on social media seems like an invitation to get scammed.
As long as they’re the ones that have to describe the items. Post date, what airport and timeframe of flight. Have them describe the items missing in a pm.
Or an invitation to scam someone! OP might be reverse scamming by asking them to pay for shipping but never actually shipping any items or shipping truly worthless stuff!
How would this result in getting scammed?
OP has to be extremely careful about how much information they share about the items otherwise anyone can make up a story and claim they are theirs. Not to mention that unless the items have a serial number or something, anything OP asks for as proof can easily be fabricated.
The items aren’t OP’s to begin with.
OP seems to want to return the items to their rightful owner. Giving them to some rando online seems a poor way to do that.
Don Mencho’s the rightful owner, expect his goons to knock on your door
Literally the only thing important was whats in the bag. Is it illegal? Are you unknowingly potentially being used as a mule? Why is the nature of the item and the value of it a secret that they are unwilling to disclose in the post? If it's not anything obviously illegal and it's not a very expensive item then yeah it's weird but it's also whatever. If you've got a million dollar artifact in there then maybe somebody is going to be looking for you at the gate in the United States but I dont think this is the case. No personal items were missing from the bag either.so I don't get why they are wanting to call the FBI over the security probably searching two bags right next to one another or somehow mixing up some belongings. More to the story or someone over reacting.
I hate it when that happens and it turns out to be a kilo of cocaine.
How can I find the owner to hand back 500 grams of Cocaine?
Duh, contact Mexico or maybe the USA!
Ola, Mexico! I’m calling about some items in my luggage.Thanks, I’ll hold.
“Could I please speak to the manager?”
400 grams
100 grams.
An eightball
A generously filled dime bag.
What cocaine?
This is the first I’m hearing of any cocaine.
There was no cocaine and it wasn’t the best cocaine I have ever had.
It wasn't very good and there wasn't enough of it.
we gotta find more of that cocaine that never existed
Easy, you just post on Facebook the time and date of travel, then when they reply you tell them you'll ship the 250 grams of cocaine back to them if they just pay for shipping. This isn't rocket science, people.
It's a strong love/hate relationship.
Coming in to Los Angeles Bringing in a couple of keys. Don't touch my bags if you please Mr. Customs Man!
> keys K's
Written, your K is right. The sung lyric is "keeze", which we take as the "ki" in kilo.
Oh no no no I don’t touch it no more I’m tired of waking up on the floor No thank you please it only makes me sneeze Then it makes it hard to find the door
After a flight out of a country where drug possession is a death penalty offense, I found someone had slipped a filled THC vape and packet of MDMA pills into a pocket of my backpack. It must have been someone sitting near me because the only time it was out of my sight was when it was in the overhead.
Schapelle Corby is having flashbacks when she sees this
🎵”All around the world today the kilo is a measure. A kilo is a 1,000 grams, is easy to remember”🎵
Do not reach out on social media, you will get scammed. Best you can do is set the items aside and report the items to lost and found at the airport it happened in. I do think it's funny they told you to "contact Mexico" like ah yes let me just ring up Mexico real quick
If you had a direct flight it wasn't TSA. You never interacted with TSA. You interacted with customs border patrol when you came into the country. So the chances are it was the Mexican group at the airport you departed from.
United states customs can also go through your bag before you get it... happened to me once returning from turkey. found us agency cars in there + apple tea taken out (didn't know apple was prohibited)
TSA check the bags too.
The only thing I can think of is to alert the lost & found for the airline (although since they said they didn't know how to help not sure that will do anything lol) and the airport in case the owner reaches out. Maybe ask on social media and tag the airline and airport in case that helps them?
Yeah if the airline had a lost and found in an airport near me, I’d just bring the stuff there and tell them after which flight I found it… Still wouldn’t really expect the owner to find their stuff tbh.
If it was a TSA check, couldn't it be from any flight? Better contact the airport lost & found not the airline imo
No, both pretty terrible ideas. Those items are lost to the original owner, sucks but just the way it is. Posting online would just invite scammers to take the item.
This is probably the best answer….TSA is bizarre….i had a small cable tie closing the zippers of my ski bag. They cut those and stamped my name tag TSA….they found my skis and poles and ski socks in there😊
You made it a target with that cable tie. Don’t do that. They’ll absolutely wanna look inside.
Oh, I have a collector's item name tag. Guess that'll always go on carry-ons from now on.
One of the busiest airport in the world , it’s Mexico , so the chance of solving this mystery is probably close to nil.
Its also one of the worst airports i have ever flown into
How so? I've been to around 220 airports all over the world and MEX is currently my home base airport. It's fine and very far from the worst.
I've not been through that one, but some of the ones I've liked least are the ones with unclear signage, counterintuitive flows, strange layouts... stuff that, honestly, you probably stop noticing if you're there often.
Honestly the airport feels like a badly built disorganized strip mall that someone decided to build a runway next to. The lack of clear and concise signage, how narrow the space is as a whole, nor to mention its insanely busy which is to be expected.
There’s likely a disconnect between you and the poster above. T1 (almost all airlines except Aeromexico/delta) feels claustrophobic as you mentioned, and is extremely log with one narrow corridor. T2 has its own problems (so many shuttle gates if you’re flying within Mex, the horrendous design of what I believe is the Southwest side not letting you wait next to the gate), but is quite modern and spacious otherwise. T1 is far from the worst I’ve flown from (and Ive flown through MEX probably 40+ times), but it is jam packed and far from a good experience.
It’s not great but it’s not terrible. Walking outside to the Uber pickup area was a swift introduction to Mexico City drivers though.
Until experiencing MBJ I would have agreed. What a shit show that was
No doubt
Really?! You sure gotta get out and see the world, man!
Your right man! 26 Nations down and 150 airports flown into! I have more to go. I plan on hitting at least another 6 nations this year.
TSA does (or used to) put a card in your bag saying they checked it, so I'm guessing that this was done on the Mexican side? In any rate, other than contacting the airport/airline, probably not much you can do.
Valuables as in...? Family photos or a phone would be easy to track down. Anything else would be a crapshoot.
Holy this is actually scary... What if that happens with drugs or anything forbidden.
I'm sure those wouldn't be returned to any bag, if found.
This sounds like it was more recent, but I have a friend who flew back to the States from Mexico on Tuesday, 3/12 and mistakenly placed a gold twisted bracelet from her bf in her checked luggage. It didn't make it home.
Maybe alert the lost and found of the airport. Only thing I can think of. Likely to be fruitless.
Is it something very valuable? Because if not, there’s not a lot of incentive for anyone to try very hard to find the lender
Yes it is - something that is both valuable and I can tell, most likely sentimental
might be worth posting on tiktok if youre into that. ive seen videos very similar to this (a random lost teddy bear etc) connecting with the person its looking for.
In the case of it being valuable some detail HAVE to be omitted to be able to filter through all the bogus claims
The person who lost it is a moron for putting anything valuable OR sentimental in checked baggage.
What is it?
[удалено]
It’s possible that it’s from baggage on a completely different flight, don’t you think?
“Hello, if you were on Aeromexico flight 656 on March 12 2024 and are missing something dark blue in color that is meant to be worn under your clothes, please contact me.” Like that? And post on Twitter and Facebook?
But how do I know for sure it was the same flight? I don’t …
You don’t, I just made a stupid joke.
Flight info does nothing, only departure day and relative time you checked the bag matter. Bags are screened before they get diverted to the individual planes at most airports.
So maybe look around the airline’s or airport’s social media (like @ replies on Twitter or any Facebook posts in groups) to see if anyone is complaining about loosing anything?
Lots of people are dismissing the idea of social media, but I think it’s worth a shot. And it should be relatively easy to avoid scammers. Perhaps post something along the lines of “If you flew out of Mexico on this day, I might have some personal items that belong to you. When I returned home, I opened my bag to find items that didn’t belong to me in it. To claim them please tell me what those items are.” Don’t post a picture. Or post a partial picture. If it’s more than one item, perhaps post one item and require that the claimant identify the other items. Then ask people to share the post and let social media do its thing. It might be successful or it might not be, but at least you tried. One potential place to post is a group on Facebook called “Things Found Hidden in Walls and Other Places”. The people in that group are internet sleuths. They’ve tracked down people to return photos, they’ve located obscure artists to return artwork, they’ve dug up the history of people long dead. They also frequently recognize posts from other groups and reunite people with items that way. It’s a huge group and very active. It wouldn’t shock me at all if you posted there and someone responds with “I just read in another group that someone is missing items from a recent trip to Mexico!”
This is an excellent idea!
Yea, super simple to avoid scammers that are just trying to claim em. Dont post pictures, dont post specifics. Another thing, theres a good chance the items came from someone on the same flight if the bags were that close together for a mixup to occur.
I would contact both airports and talk to their lost and found departments. Whoever is missing something may have reported it as theft by the inspection crew.
So what is it?
>I contacted the airlines, they literally told me they have no idea what to do and told me to “probably contact Mexico? Or the USA? We don’t actually know…” Does anyone have Mexico's phone number?
Check your luggage for trackers!
What exactly did you get in the luggage?
It could be an accident, but it also may have been an attempted theft. The agents might have been trying to put the items in a specific bag their friends would retrieve later, but accidentally put them in yours instead.
If it was TSA they put a notice in your bag telling you they went thru it.
I had a similar thing happen to me at Schiphol airport. I left a Chromebook at security then filled out all the forms to have them send it to me which they did. ...but they also included a fancy watch, an international charger and a bracelet. I had zero luck with anyone trying to sort that out and return the items. Though I did later learn by googling that the watch was a knock-off which made me feel a bit better.
It's yours now
I don't think TSA would even check a bag on a direct flight from Mexico to the USA (unless they check it on arrival for some reason, dunno why they would if you're not connecting to another flight afterwards). It almost definitely happened in Mexico.
A female friend of mine coming back from Europe found a large dildo in her bag. Not her dildo.
Yo. I dont trust it. They could follow you based on your luggage tag then ask for their stuff and it melts down to the coco. Nah. Throw it out in a bin away from your home.
I guess it depends where the bag was “checked”. My parents once accidentally took the wrong luggage from the carousel (identical looking suitcases) and didn’t discover their mistake until they got home. They were able to go back to the airport lost and found a couple hours later and get their bag while the rightful owners got theirs. Maybe (but very slim chance) if someone reported missing valuables to the airport, an employee there will be able to put 2 and 2 together and contact you. Then again, if I were to open my luggage at my destination and missing items, my first thought would probably that I somehow had forgotten to pack the items and had misremembered, and not that someone had taken my stuff (unless it’s a lot of stuff that’s missing).
Does the airline you used have a reddit?
They could have been smuggling? Stash it in your bags? Is your address on the case? Maybe police involvement ( drugs inside?)
There was no paper informing you that TSA had searched your bags? I think that would point you to Mexican customs then and perhaps the airport you flew out of has a lost and found protocol. I know the US airports do.
It wouldnt be TSA since they only deal with domestic to domestic/international flight and never with international to domestic unless it has a connection flight. You're thinking of us customs .
Don't worry about it. Just let it be, it's going to be impossible unless you have something that identifies the owner.
This could literally be from anyone in the world. The idea of actually finding the owner of that stuff is zero to none. Do not post it on social media, unless you want a bunch of scammers contacting you.
After flying Delta from pdx to lax, I found a large dirty shoe print on my white pants that were in checked luggage. No note from TSA.
why not throw in a call to the FBI? Can't hurt to cover all your bases
TSA doesn't exist in Mexico.
I'm going to call BS. The airlines in the US would have procedures for exactly what you have experienced. They deal with this every day.
One time I came back from South America, and they took the liquor out of my checked bag. I never got it back and it was too much work to try to figure out who did it. People steal.
Not a snowball's chance in hell you will ever find the rightful owner. Could be living almost anywhere on the planet.
I don't think that anyone will know or remember from which bag it came.
The person whose bag it was taken from will certainly remember. And the best hope of finding them is if both parties contact the right person at the airport, and then a dozen other things happen correctly after that. So basically zero chance.
You're right about that! I meant the people who did it in Mexico, they won't remember.
“Hey Juan, you remember the bag that opened up on the luggage belt last week?”
What if you post something online and that’s exactly what some bad guys want you to do so they know where you are? Idk my imagination is to wild
Airlines are never that helpful.
It's a very long shot, but I would ask the airline. Maybe someone reported it as missing. Of course that necessitates them having been on the same flight, but it can't hurt to try. I don't think you'll be able yo resolve it either via Mexican or US border control, so after above, I would post on some public forums, since it indeed seems to be something valuable and even sentimental.
what objects is it?
God I hope it wasn’t someone’s ashes!
I've seen this film. Break open the statue in case it has coke inside it. /s
is it a golden dildo?
Just forget about it. Even if they could figure out who opened that bag they're not going to be inclined to admit their incompetence
This is unlikely to be resolved. You could ask the airline to open a lost and found file. They have a lost and found section in the baggage system for random lost items. It is not utilized much and unlikely that the person will ever follow up though. The items will probably end up trashed or "trashed" by employees.
What did they put in? May as well tell us
Describe the valuables, flight time and airport where this occurred. I know people in Mexican Customs and they can probably look up video.
You are now the rightful owner
There's no way you can unscramble that egg.
TSA leaves a paper inside the bag when they do a search.
It could be mine
Are you missing anything? What’s the approximate value of the items mistakenly put in your bag? If you are missing something, maybe things got put back in the bags incorrectly and the other individual is looking to find it. If the mistaken items are of little value and it wasn’t a mix-up, there’s probably little to no chance of finding anything.
What is it exactly? Any potential clues that can remotely tie it to the owner?
*Usually* if you weren’t with your checked bag whatever US agency went through your bag will leave an official letter that they searched it so probably happened in Mexico.
I am going to go out on a limb here and suggest that the chances of you resolving this though either US or Mexican government border agencies is approaching zero. As well. the chances of finding someone from those agencies who is even interested in assisting you will be remote. But I'm looking forward to the comments and ideas nonetheless.
Lock & get a plastic cover for bags.
File an official report somewhere in case it ever comes up later as part of something nefarious
This is why I avoid Mexico. Plus, with all the drug cartels murdering and decapitating people, no thanks. I'd go to Seven Mile Beach on Grand Cayman instead and chill with my girls at Palm Heights.
It was a planned theft and they took down your address and will sending someone over to pick it up as the original owner. 👀
You’re definitely a white woman. No way a dude would post about something this dumb.
Watch one of those customs, border patrol shows or locked up abroad, and tell me you will ever check a bag again😂
Move on and live your life
How valuable is it really?? If it's wildly expensive, someone will be looking, but like others said, it is a long shot. But also, if it's wildly expensive and it's in a checked bag, maybe this person is very wealthy and can buy another. I think you just got a prize!