And quite frankly, if you are willing to roam the streets to find another bin with your number on then you've got way too much time on your hands.
I've got my sticker ready to put on the brown bin. It's got my house number
and street name on it.
My bins have got the number plastered in marker pen all over as well , but going to have to be putting it out last thing and getting ready to grab it back in when they've been as where it's put for emptying isn't visible from our house . All the bins in our corner have to be left at the top of the long driveway together, next to an alleyway.(At least the neighbour who used to just grab any bin in, as well as dumping their 'wrong' stuff in ours when it was out up the top before it was emptied , has moved now!)
Someone nicked my nice shiny clean 'average size' green bin within minutes of it being emptied. By the time I'd got my shoes on to get it straight back in , it had disappeared and the bin men swore blind it hadn't gone into the back of the lorry. ( A bungalow around corner the other end of the alleyway has their 'tiny' bin , along with another 'average' bin sitting hidden behind it in their back garden , but can't see far enough to see it's mine
)