Before you report
“Before you report a LOST ITEM, please search it under ‘found items’.” If it was already listed, contact the finder directly; if not, click REPORT LOST ITEM, fill in a short form and save it — the post would appear immediately. Finders did the mirror image. When to report: as soon as something is lost; the example given was a school marksheet.
Waiting
There was no promised timeline. A finder who matched your report would contact you; otherwise you were to check the found list regularly, or subscribe to a free e-mail alert by category — report a lost driving licence (category Documents, sub-category Driving License) and you would be e-mailed when someone reported a found document in the same category.
Rewards and proof
A REWARD field let the loser offer something, “either in cash or kind”, “just to incentivise others to return your lost item.” Before handing anything back, finders were advised to ask the claimant for ID proof “that can substantiate her/his ownership”. That was the whole of the verification guidance.
After it’s returned
Logged-in users could edit their reports and flag them RETURNED or RECEIVED, which kept the lists clean; returners were thanked “for your noble effort” and asked to pass on the owner’s thank-you note for the Success Story section. Owners were encouraged to write one, because it “will certainly encourage the mass to come forward for such a noble act.”
Housekeeping
Logging in was optional but needed to edit a report. A CAPTCHA guarded the forms against scripts “dumping unwarranted data”, with an apology for the delay. The dummy listings were explained and promised gone. The old addresses — /help/*, /node/*, /report/*, the login pop-ups — redirect here.
This site is an archive of a domain name. It does not take lost-or-found reports, hold contact details or relay messages.