What is the modern equivalent of the key tags offering a reward for return of a key ring?
Asa workshop now has 6 keys just to get in door, thanks for all advice after recent attempted break in, BTW found Sony 1/3" Super HAD cameras give much better picture than any of the competitors but anyway, now have bunch of keys that would be inconvenient to lose, Abloy keys are expensive.
Are there key return services around that offer a reward to a finder or is it just as feasible to putr a tag with anonymous email offering a reward to a returning finder?
who also protect our keys. Been with them many years so no idea of current prices but might be worth looking at. Never had to use them (thankfully) so can't say how good they are when needed though.
Not answering your question - but wouldn't it be better to have all the locks keyed alike with a registered profile (i.e. can't be copied in the high street) - and then if keys are lost, have all the locks rekeyed immediately?
The initial cost of keyed-alike may be high, but rekeying if needed is not so bad.
Hoping to have a lost bunch of keys returned, and hanging on and not changing the locks - well it's about the same security level as keys under the doormat.
Plus - if you incur a loss after no forced entry - your insurer may not pay out.
We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember Adam Aglionby saying something like:
There are various key return services around - I was subscribed to one as a freebie for a couple of years, but didn't bother carrying it on when it became a paid service, so can't say how good it would have been.
I have it too - comes with my version of a Visa card. Lost my car keys once, and they arrived back a couple of days later by post. So very worth it. It's also a form of identification if something happened to you while out with no wallet, etc.
Me too. What I liked when I signed up (offered via Amex) was the key tag was brass with the number embossed into it, easy to read. The current tags are still metal and quite robust but silvered and difficult to read. Some key return tags are plastic and printed, not robust enough and the print wears off...
I've not lost my keys so can't comment on the return side, which is reliant on some one finding and posting them back to Sentinel anyway.
Ah I see the other meaning, I was thinking of the drop in post box straight back to house via PO, rather than drop in post box, delivered to Sentinel (or who ever) then sent to you. I would hope that they send them in something that makes some attempt to disguise that the package does contain keys and requires a signature.
Pretty well anything you get 'in the post' comes in a envelope or padded bag etc unless just printed material. My keys were no different - came in a Jiffy bag. I can't remember if they had to be signed for.
I believe a finder can drop them in a post box, though, and the PO sorts things out from there.
It does cover home and office keys unlike Sentinel but as I understand it, sentinel will pay up to 600 GBP per claim including lock change etc and/or overnight onward transport /car hire.
Keycare`s Angelcare agin just under 40 quid a year has limit of 40 GBP per day on car hire and 80 GBP on hotel costs, so depends on what looking to protect against , though ID theft and `emotional support` does actualy sound reassuring.
Something need to look at what out of house, business, car , bank and card issuers am altready with can offer.
Something would always worry me about buying cheap locks from J. Random Stranger on ebay, who therefore knows the delivery address and has had access to the keys ...
nb:- buyer also knows where seller lives/d to inform plod...
...must be fairly desperate pikey to gamble on a 200mile say road trip to see if he can find the padlock he flogged on ebay without being spotted, filmed, arrested, without even knowing what it's being used for?
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