Don't give up hope,
I dropped a pack off my bike at Gilgandra. Didn't realise till I hit QLD. Called home to beg for cash discovered that the pack had been handed in to police who tracked it from my ID in my wallet.
It was transferred overnight to a QLD pick-up point at no charge; $1k still in the wallet. Never forget it..., although... it was 30 years back.
