![]() ![]() ![]() Many airlines charge for bags now, so cost isn’t much of an issue, and I don’t have to carry bags through the airport, or wait for them at the baggage claim (a bonus when you travel with kids!). Depending on where I’m going, I’ll ship my luggage via UPS or Fedex straight to my hotel: I fly infrequently, but when I do, I rarely take luggage that isn’t my laptop carryon. Whereas if you ARE overseas and passed the x-ray and scan, they will wrap your bags in cellophane at the ticket counter area. Worst offenders My folks and I had in Europe? Change over in Charles De Gaulle airport. The down side is they will abuse the hell out of your bag out of spite. Thieves and their dishonest ilk (bosses) will go for low hanging items. The harder it is for a person to palm, swipe, snag, gank a small item. Place anything fragile or electronic in the middle of the folded clothing.īasically, The larger the vacu-seal bundle. Include a sheet of all the items in the luggage label THAT 1 of 2. Put a sheet of paper with the items you have in every single bag. Include a copy of the entire inventory of 1 of X two sheets of paper. Number them 1 of X in Large Ugly block Permanent Marker AND Write your Name on the Bags Themselves. Use a set of “Space Saver Vacuum Seal Storage Bags”. Of course, you can get into just about any suitcase with a ball point pen, so maybe this isn’t a real “security” issue, but it sure isn’t what you want to see from the agency that is supposed to protect you. Who knew that you could make keys from a photograph? We did way back in 2009 and way more in depth this May… maybe the TSA should start reading Hackaday?Ī little humility will go a long way, TSA might behave like overly officious bureaucrats, but typically it’s the baggage handlers that steal. If you put a non-TSA approved lock on the bag, that can make them a little angry, and you risk having your bag delayed or even cut open. So the TSA agents have a set of master keys that can open any bag if they need to look inside for some reason. It has to be approved by the TSA – and that means that they have to be able to open it. You can see it in action in the (twitter) video after the break.įor those that are not familiar with travel in the US, you are not allowed to use just any old lock on your bags. Well, the lock picking community when nuts and in a short time had 3D printed versions available and working. The most recent TSA folly seemed to practically fall into the Internet’s lap when a reporter for the The Washington Post published a hi-res picture of the entire set of TSA master keys while writing an article about how the TSA handles your bags after checking them at the counter. We’re actually okay with that if it means nobody is trying to do anything shady. If it’s not reports of TSA agents stealing valuables or inappropriately groping passengers, there is the fun fact that in all the years since it was created in 2001, the agency hasn’t caught a single person seeking to do harm in the friendly skies. They seem to have a perfect track record of screwing up – and that’s not an easy thing to accomplish if you think about it. We have to hand it to the Transportation Security Administration (TSA).
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