Numlock Sunday: Allegra Rosenberg on the evolution of luggage

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By Walt Hickey

Welcome to the Numlock Sunday edition.

This week, I spoke to Allegra Rosenberg, who wrote “Heavy baggage: The most luxurious luggage is the kind you don't have to carry” for Sherwood News. Here's what I wrote about it:

The market for luggage is projected to increase 8 percent in the next decade, but the real action is taking things a step further and moving beyond lugging around baggage in the first place. U.S. airlines already raked in $33 billion from baggage fees in 2023, and the sheer size of that fee has some wondering if there isn't a superior, perhaps older way to get one's stuff to a destination. Luggage forwarding services, which are simultaneously “a trendy add-on service that uses the latest tech to get your things to your destination before you do” as well as “a thing one would read about in Dracula or some other 1800s novel,” are making a rebound after growing popular in places like Japan, India and Switzerland, even if the…