Lost Baggage

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SCOTTSBORO, Ala. — It is a secondhand store, one of a kind. Its name, Unclaimed Baggage Center, doesn’t quite say it all. Its shelves are stocked not only with luggage lost, forgotten or ditched by airline passengers; the store also carries all the Bags and suitcases that can't be reunited with their owners end up in northern Alabama at the Unclaimed Baggage Center. Copyright © 2014 NPR. For personal, noncommercial use only. See Terms of Use. For other uses, prior permission required. DAVID GREENE called the Unclaimed Baggage Center—a facility so large that it's bigger than a city block. All are welcome to peruse and shop a wide selection of goods culled from unclaimed luggage and cargo delivered from commercial airlines, buses, trains Following is an excerpt from an article in the September issue of “atmore” magazine. Unclaimed Baggage Center is located in Scottsboro, Alabama. Well, it’s hard to know where to start about UBC. I’m sure many of you know about it. The “store "It got to the point five or six years ago where it was quite an embarrassment for the industry, for airlines and airports," said Nick Gates, SITA's London-based baggage portfolio director. lost baggage was costing the airline industry $4 billion a year by Research from SITA, the makers of the World Tracer System for baggage, found that there were 25.8 million mishandled (lost and temporarily mislaid) bags in 2012. The last detailed consumer research into lost baggage from the Association of European .

Shop the gift shop and get a scoop of your favorite flavors of ice cream. The trip to the Unclaimed Baggage Store & Resale Shop and also the Scottsboro Heritage Center will be Thursday, April 16, in Scottsboro, AL. America’s only lost luggage store was It's called the Unclaimed Baggage Center, and as spokeswoman Brenda Cantrell explains, it's like no other store you've ever shopped at. “We’re a 40,000-square foot department store — it actually covers a complete city block,” Cantrell says. U.S.-based airlines try to reunite missing bags with their owners for 90 days. But if they can't, the luggage and all its contents are sent to the sprawling Unclaimed Baggage Center in Scottsboro, Alabama, NPR reports. Only 0.5% of all bags on U.S In the event a bag is never found, there is a huge warehouse in Scottsboro, Al. and is named the “Unclaimed Baggage Center.” You can find it online at www.unclaimedbaggae.com and their number is (256) 259-1525. Hopefully you will never lose a piece of .