If you’re feeling particularly ambitious, you might try uncovering a secret government agency for $50 or less. A woman in Germany did - with an AirTag. iMore highlights an Apple Insider post, which highlights a Medium post, which I’m sure we could find a way to trace back to Kevin Bacon. According to the write-up of the write-up of the write-up, “Lilith Wittmann spotted references to a Federal Telecommunications Service on a website” in Germany. She did not know what that was. After asking around, nobody knew what it was. So… she mailed an AirTag to it - like you do. “As it turned out,” the piece says:
…it was delivered nowhere near where it should have been and instead landed in a building used by the Office for the Protection of the Constitution in Cologne. Again, nobody seems to know why. The obvious question is why is mail addressed to a telecoms branch of the government finding its way to one that's designed for the “protection of the constitution” and for what purpose?
Now, a bit of added fun: iMore says the official line from the Bundesrepublik is that the Federal Telecommunications Service “does not exist in the business area of the Federal Government…” Maybe mail to the non-existent organization is like letters to Santa - it’s gotta be delivered somewhere. Why is it on a website though?
You know - they may wanna look into Apple’s Personal Safety User Guide.
