How would you go about finding your lost passport in an 800,000 sq ft warehouse? The answer was a helpful worker who had lost his mother to cancer.

Medical technology company co-founder Tim Jones was due to travel to an important work trip to Rome when he realised he couldn't find his passport.

Suspecting he had dropped it in a laptop bag he was returning to an Amazon warehouse in Skewen, Edinburgh, he called up the online retailer in the hope staff could miraculously find it in the 11 football pitch-sized building.

Warehouse worker Marc found the passport after just a few hours search in the 800,000 sq ft building. PHOTO: Amazon WS

Luckily for him, on the other end of the line was warehouse worker Marc, who, having lost his own mother recently to cancer, pulled out all the stops to help, Wales Online reports.

"I had already started the process of trying to get a new passport but thought I’d call Amazon anyway. Why not? Maybe they’d be able to help," Tim said.

One of Amazon’s giant warehouses operating in the UK.

"I was instantly impressed by how much Marc wanted to help me, even though I knew the chances of the passport being found were small.”

"Both Marc and Jonathan, the guy who eventually located it, went above and beyond to solve my problem. I was so lucky."

His luck didn’t stop there. A colleague told Tim that with his current run of good fortune, he should give the lottery a go.

So Tim bought a lottery ticket at his local supermarket to celebrate finding it, and ended up with a pleasing 'return' … a windfall of £1,784.53.

"I have had a spell of very good luck but it couldn't have happened without the tenacity of Marc and Jonathan," said Tim.

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