I found several wallets over the years especially during my Post Office years and I just turn it in to registry. I just let the clerks know which street corner mail drop off box I found it and they do the rest...
Basic common sense, put yourself in the other person's shoes...you would want it returned right?
Man Loses Wallet Full of Cash, Then Finds a Note Inside His Mailbox 3 Days Later: ‘Please Call Me’ (Exclusive)
"It gives you faith that there's still good people out there," David Jacobson says of Leo McIntosh, who returned his lost wallet
Most days, David Jacobson is lucky to have $50 in his wallet.
But last month, the Omaha, Neb., resident had $500 stuffed into it — $200 from a winning lottery ticket and $300 he earned from outdoor work — when he went to Charles Schwab Field Omaha for a pair of baseball games. Between the afternoon and evening games, Jacobson, 60, tells PEOPLE he rode his e-bike home along a bike trail on John Pershing Drive to freshen up.
When he got home, however, he realized his wallet was missing.
He retraced his route back to the stadium before the second game but couldn't find it.
After the game was over, two friends each gave him $20 to get him by until his next paycheck, when he would receive the standard $586 he earns every two weeks as a custodial engineer.
"I was really bumming out," Jacobson says. "Plus, Nebraska got their butts beat. So I was bumming out. Until Monday night."
Three days after losing the wallet, which also contained his credit cards and identification, Jacobson was still searching for it when he found a note in his mailbox. "I am trying to connect with David Jacobson," the note read. "We found his wallet on the bike trail ... please call me."
The note was signed by a man named Leo, who included his phone number. Jacobson called the number, and the following day, he met Leo McIntosh at Dubliner Pub, where Jacobson works.
"He was super excited and he looked through the wallet to make sure his cash was there," McIntosh, 55, tells PEOPLE.
Jacobson offered McIntosh a $40 reward, but McIntosh politely declined.
"I just told him, 'I really appreciate the offer, but I just want you to pay it forward. If you see somebody or know somebody that needs a hand, give him a hand,' " McIntosh says. "And he gave me a hug."
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Before finding the note, Jacobson says he had already begun calculating side jobs he could take on to make up for the lost money, which he had planned to use to pay his utility bills.
"I don't have money by any means, that really would have taken a toll on me," Jacobson says. "I don't carry that kind of money at all. The $500 was just a fluke and that's why I was devastated."
While Jacobson regularly traveled the bike route where he lost his wallet, it was new to McIntosh, a vice president of operations at the YMCA of Greater Omaha, who just happened to be in the area with a friend.
"We were down at the baseball stadium and decided to go check out a new bar and restaurant for dinner, so we started on the trail," he says. "This was the first time we'd ever been on this trail."
Along the trail, they actually saw Jacobson whiz by. In fact, he was the only person they recalled seeing there that day.
"He was riding an electric bike, and we were like, 'Man, we wish we had that bike,' " says McIntosh, whose friend spotted the wallet about a mile later.
"I picked it up, and you could see a pretty big wad of money in there," McIntosh recalls, adding that he wondered aloud whether it belonged to the man who had just passed them. "We looked at each other, we both laughed. We said, 'We're not catching him,' " McIntosh says.
When they got to the restaurant, McIntosh planned to make a post on Facebook, but he and his friend had no cellphone service. So he created a post that evening when he returned home, but he didn't receive any responses.
"I just started thinking, 'Gosh, if I lost my wallet, I'd want it back right away,' " McIntosh says.
The following day, he drove about 15 miles from his home in Council Bluffs, Iowa, to the address on the ID in Jacobson's wallet.
"I went up to the house and it said 'No Soliciting,' but I knocked anyway, and nobody came to the door," McIntosh says. He didn't want his trip to be in vain, so he wrote a message on a clean napkin he found in his car and put it in Jacobson's mailbox.
He didn't expect Jacobson to check his mail until Tuesday, as the next day was Memorial Day.
That Monday night, after Jacobson returned home from work, he watched TV and ate dinner. Around 9 p.m. he felt compelled to check his mailbox. "Why? I don't know," Jacobson says. "It's a holiday, there shouldn't be mail anyway. I just got a wild hair and decided to go, and there it was: this note."
Jacobson ran back into his house and called and texted Jacobson. The two connected and met the following day at the Dubliner Pub.
"I put my arm around him," Jacobson says. "He was still in his car, and I hugged him through the window."
The two took a picture together that McIntosh sent to a group of friends — one of whom recognized Jacobson.
"He had worked for a friend of mine 30 or 40 years ago, and my friend said, 'Come hell or high water, he rode his bike across the bridge and made it to work every day,' " McIntosh says.
McIntosh says he was grateful that his actions could serve as a lesson to his three children.
Jacobson says the experience has taught him something, too.
"It gives you faith that there's still good people out there," Jacobson says. "I try to do the right thing. I'm not perfect, but I do right, and it's nice to see it come full circle."
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