If you find a wallet, I recommend contacting the owner directly for identification before mailing it and not relying on the police to get it back to the owner. I once found a wallet with cash and IDs while I was hiking in the Lakes Region. A long google search didn't turn up a phone number so I called the police in Boston. I could tell they weren't too motivated to help get the wallet to its owner. They wanted me to mail the wallet to them. Ha, I declined. I insisted that they go to the guy's house, give him my phone number, and ask him to call me. Why did I do that? Because I was imagining the anxiety he was going through with his wallet missing, and the effort it would take to replace his ID cards and credit cards if the wallet didn't get back to him safely. The police finally went to his house, he called me, and the wallet was in the mail the next day.
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