Hello,
Given the past 2 posts about how the forums have facilitated chessed around the globe, I have a pair of Talis and Tefillin for over 3 years now that remain ownerless. How I got them was absolute hashgacha pratis.
I used to drive Uber/Lyft/Amazon Prime back when rideshare was much more lucrative than it is now. One Sunday right arounf Thanksgiving I wound up with a fare from Baltimore all the way to Dulles Airport, a minimum of 1.5 hours without traffic. After dropping off, I went over to the rideshare waiting area to hopefully pick up a fare that would take me towards Maryland and mincha. It was getting late, and I decided I will have to daven b'yechidus in the lot since I would not make it to a minyan.
After I finished davening, another driver comes over to me with a package, and said "I saw you praying and I figured you would know what to do with this". It was a pair of talis and tefillin, of course without any embroidered name tags or ID. He explained that he was driving in Washington DC when the passenger forgot it in his car about 2 weeks prior. He tried following up with Uber, and they told him to take it to the local GreenLight office and drop it off since no one claimed it. Thankfully he did not do that.
There were various cards, papers etc inside but no leads developed from them. I contacted all the Chabad and Hilllel houses in the DC/VA/MD area as well as publicize in papers, shuls and online forums. i got a few calls but no matches.
The T&T are NOT in a standard velvet bag, but in one of those plastic canisters with a screw-on top.
So that's the story, I never thought to try here but why not.
Thanks
Nachum Hurvitz