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Originally Posted by choppa
Just flew back into Australia today from the phoenix forum. When we unopended one of our travellers bags that had all nice gifts from the phoenix area, we noticed a TSA form saying they had inspected the bag. Any breakables that were in this bag were all broken and packaging bags ripped. Everything was packaged properly, but not put back that wayWe also had other breakables in other bags that were not opended by TSA and all these gifts are fine.
TSA are a bunch of jerks approx $200-$300 of gifts are broken. Some lovely Kokopelli statues just too damged to try to even get them professionally fixed.
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I know how you feel mate.
Every time I travel, I padlock (and I mean sturdily padlock) my suitcase, and ziptie any smaller compartments.
1) Those shitty travel locks you buy / come w/ the suitcase are SHIT. If you can't pop them w/ your fingers, a pair of scissors / paperclip will do the trick.
2) Zipties offer some protection from things.. appearing.. in your bag pockets.
I've never had a problem w/ this method.. flew into the USA, here comes my suitcase, open, sprawling stuff everywhere.
They'd tried to chomp the padlock, with no success, so had instead cut / ripped the zipper off the suitcase - so there was no way of resealing it - trashed everything in the suitcase, and threw it back.
That and the fingerprints and photos - all I can say is, fuck that.
USA hahahaha one fucken paranoid and Orwellian country.