Housed' in a four-story warehouse, the huge repository holds around 800,000 lost items on any given day with 5.000 new ones trucked in each and every morning. The place handles so many items that they need a 2.2- ton freight' elevator just to move and shift things around inside the giant temporary storage facility. Some 25010 people visit the place each day hoping to recover" the things they have lost. The typical annual haul2 breaks down to" some 220,000 articles of clothing", 30,000 mobile phones, 18,000 eyeglasses and 17,000 wallets. Items like these are typical of5 the kinds of things people lose every day. The basement, equivalent in size to four basketball courts, is reserved" exclusively for umbrellas, and approximately 300,000" of them are turned in?0 each year. That's about 3,200 umbrellas for every rainy day of the year.