Re: Returning lost cash : Thu Nov 28, 2013 7:12 pm  

Keith wrote:

Well I've just handed it over to the police and they're treating it as found property, but don't have any resources to try and trace the owner despite a receipt from the cash machine. I'm also going to contact Barclays to see if they can get in touch with him, be interesting to see if they bother.

Good on you.

Re: Returning lost cash : Thu Nov 28, 2013 7:36 pm  

Keith wrote:

Thought I'd buy you a life, you seem to be in need of one.

Oh how I've enjoyed stumbling across this site several years ago.

Re: Returning lost cash : Sun Dec 01, 2013 12:24 am  

Not sure if procedures have changed but a few years back I found a purse in the street. I dropped it off at the Central Police Station expecting them to just contact the owner. It was an elderly lady and her bus pass was in it so shouldn't have been too difficult to trace her. The Old Bill kept me there while they logged the contents - bus pass, Co-op stamps and not much else. Anyway they told me before I left that if it wasn't claimed in 6 months (IIRC) then I could claim it!
I shook my head in despair and left. However, a couple of weeks later I received a letter containing a £5 postal order in which the lady said she went to the Police station on the off chance it had been handed in and was surprised to find it had been. If she hadn't chased it the Old Bill would have just bunged it in a store room somewhere. Next time I'll do my own detective work and find the owner myself.