October 24, 2025 at 11:55 pm

A Traveler Found A Lost Phone At An Airport, But They Figured Out Who It Belonged To And Mailed It To Them

by Matthew Gilligan

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Folks, I’m gonna go ahead and say it

Reddit’s “Random Acts of Kindness” page never fails to deliver!

And here’s another example of what I’m talking about!

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Mailed a phone home that I found in the airport after Christmas.

“My husband and I were flying home the Saturday after Christmas through DFW.

Everything was super delayed due to thunderstorms that morning and airport was not where people wanted to be.

We moved gates and had our baby and dog with us. Flight before us is boarding, ladies across from us stand up when their group is called.

I quickly see an iPhone plugged into the seat chargers and holler after them. A stranger sitting a few chairs down says “oh, that’s not their phone.

It’s been there. I think it was someone from the flight before. It was ringing a lot earlier but no one answered it.”

I just give her the most what the heck look ever, learn that the airline employees won’t take the phone—they don’t want to take responsibility and say you have to give it to an airport employee.

She decided to take action.

I just think, “**** that, I’ll see if I can call someone and figure out who this belongs to.”

Eventually a text comes through and I’m able to use Siri to call the person who texted. It’s the daughter of the phone owner! I ask if she’s comfortable with me just taking the phone home and mailing it.

We get home, I have to work Monday but my husband takes it to UPS and gets it there speedy quick.

That was nice!

The phone owner was about the same age as my grandmother and I was just thinking “I hope someone would help my grandmother if she lost her phone.”

Haven’t told friends/family but just wanted to let you know, if I find your phone, we will mail it to you!”

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We need more of these kind of folks in the world today!

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