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[VentureMan_2000]

3 hours ago, mz-s said:

The text on the luggage tags says they do not need to be in color. Why people think they know better than Carnival, who designed this process, I will never understand.

It's really just a matter of perspective.  Anyone who has been cruising with Carnival over the last 35 years knows that the colors are not meaningless. They once played an important role in luggage delivery to your stateroom.

 

Before the ability for folks to print their own boarding docs and luggage tags, Carnival would mail you these documents.  Your luggage tag was a little 2" x 3" card with a stretchy to attach it to the handle of your luggage.  The tag was indeed color coded to the floor and position of your stateroom.  You would hand-write your name and stateroom number on the tag.  If you lost or forgot your little tag, the Porter would look up your cabin and provide you with the correct color tags for your stateroom.  Again, you had to write your name and stateroom number on the tags.  

The color specifies the deck and position of the stateroom and gives the guys sorting and delivering the bags an easy visual to know which deck to drop off the bags.

I'm sure the color coding is still produced on the current luggage tags that we all can now print online because you really don't want to make a software change -- any software change can introduce errors and requires a lot of testing before implementing.  Easier to let folks know in the FAQ section of the Carnival site.

Somewhere along the line Carnival decided that printing in black and white is just fine.  I'm sure it was easier for Carnival to just let folks know that it's fine to print luggage tags in Black & White, as opposed to making a software change.

 

[jsglow]

I can't believe there's a CC 'argument' over color v B/W tags.  🤯

 

We've done both depending on our printer situation. Everyone* gets their luggage.

 

(* Waiting on the story about someone who had a longshoreman accidentally drop it in the ocean.)

[mz-s]

2 hours ago, jsglow said:

I can't believe there's a CC 'argument' over color v B/W tags.  🤯

 

We've done both depending on our printer situation. Everyone* gets their luggage.

 

(* Waiting on the story about someone who had a longshoreman accidentally drop it in the ocean.)

 

Happened to someone on one of my cruises last year (wasn't a Carnival cruise though).

[jsglow]

30 minutes ago, mz-s said:

 

Happened to someone on one of my cruises last year (wasn't a Carnival cruise though).

I think what that means is that you cruise too much mz! 😉

[mz-s]

Just now, jsglow said:

I think what that means is that you cruise too much mz! 😉

 

Impossible! 🙂

[NavyCruiser]

Been printing out tags in B&W.  

Never a problem.

 

But I've read on the internet (so it must always be true!) that if you print out wrong color than ship's official color, your luggage will be delivered to a different cruise ship... 😉

[Knights on the Beach]

On 10/10/2023 at 9:52 AM, ProgRockCruiser said:

Out of curiosity I just downloaded "new" luggage tag for an upcoming cruise, which I had previously downloaded.

 

I just did the same out of curiosity for our cruise next month. The original luggage tags I downloaded were red and said Platinum. The ones I just downloaded are light purple and say Priority. 🤷‍♀️

[mistycruiser]

I think there was a glitch in one of the maintenance system upgrades a few months ago and suddenly all of the luggage tags were switched to red by accident.  Now it appears they've fixed the issue and multiple colors are back.