Lost Property

Near the end of my shift a passenger handed me an envelope, addressed with 3 stamps on ready to be posted. Now technically this is lost property which I hand in at the end of my shift, write out a label with the name of the person who gave it to me the route and direction of travel the time it was found and my name and work number. It then goes in a box in the depot. If someone realises that they have lost something on a bus they can come into the depot at Torquay and claim it. If they don't come in before 9:30 the next morning it and all other lost property that has been handed in the previous day will be sent over to Paignton where it will be kept for a couple of months in the hope the person who lost it will come in and collect it. After 2 months when the collection of unclaimed property begins to clutter up the office a note is put up with a list of unclaimed property for the drivers to collect, I have in the past found a digital camera which was claimed and a CD player which wasn't claimed. I still have the CD player together with the CD that was in it but as I now have an iPod it isn't used. When the note goes up I should go over to Paignton and collect the letter which is now mine to do what I want with.

Did I go through all this procedure? No, I just posted the letter. So if you left a letter on a number 12 yesterday afternoon addressed to some where in Paignton it has been posted, after 6pm so it missed the last post, sorry, but it will get there by Thursday.

All in a days work.