Baggage Labels - Collecting

The collector cherishes his labels and refuses to trust them to the hands of a baggage-smasher. As a matter of fact, he would rather have his baggage wrecked than lose a label. He keeps his stickers in a scrapbook, mounting them with stamp hinges, rather than using the stickers' own glue, which is apt to be too stubborn if he has occasion to remove the label.

While the label that recalls your own travels means the most to you, there is considerable interest, also, in other baggage stickers. Many of them are not only highly attractive in themselves, but also conjure up happy dreams of places you hope to visit—and will visit—some day.

How to get baggage labels? That's the problem! There is no problem, of course, in getting stickers whenever you make a trip. Acquiring the ones from faraway places is quite another matter. Any of your friends who travel can bring them back to you, and if they come up with extras, you will be in a position to trade your duplicates with other collectors.

Since the stickers are a form of advertising, the hotels and carrier services are anxious to have them as widely distributed as possible. For this reason, a letter of request with a self-addressed envelope and coins to cover the return postage will frequently produce results. You can find out what the return postage will be in American money from your local post office, and United States money is acceptable anywhere in the world. Every letter may not bring back stickers, but the cost is so low that it is a good gamble.

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