Will you receive baggage labels for your next cruise?

If you are a seasoned cruiser you will have noticed quite a change in recent years in the way the cruise lines produce pre-cruise information and travel documents.
With most of the cruise lines, gone are the days of glossy books of Shore Excursion availibility dropping through your door a couple of months before your voyage and then a nice leather wallet containing your tickets and colour coded luggage labels arriving about two weeks before travel.
Most lines are now trying to be paper free, which I must admit I’m all for, trying to do their bit to save the planet. Once you get used to it, it is so much easier to do everything on line – much quicker and more efficient certainly than relying on Royal Mail!
A recent improvement made by ourselves here at Cruise.co.uk  very recently is that we no longer print off your e-tickets and post them to you, we simply email you to let you know that they are available to download and print off in the comfort of your own home – so simple. Obviously if clients do not have internet access we will still print and send tickets, and we are more than happy to do their online check in for them.
One real bone of contention though seems to be baggage labels. I seem to be getting more and more phone calls on the subject, and despite guidelines from the cruise lines there really doesn’t seem to be any rhyme or reason as to when they send them out or not. Many cruise lines give people the opportunity to order them on their Cruise Personaliser, others allow clients to print off paper ones – they will be about as much use a a chocolate teapot!
Clients are not happy with these paper ones and I can understand why. They are useless!
The only advice I can give you is if you do not receive baggage labels, all the porters at the cruise terminals have plenty of them in their pockets so grab one ofthem and say you need baggage labels beofre you hand over your bags. Maybe these chaps will get so fed up of being asked that they will feed back to the cruise lines and a new improved system will have to be introduced.
All suggestions welcome!