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Post by jafo19d on Apr 28, 2016 5:25:42 GMT -5
When I go back home to the US, I like to take a large suitcase to bring stuff back to Colombia. However I sometimes get nervous about checking the bag to the US because I think about someone putting stuff in my bag. A coworker says she always shrink wraps her bags when traveling abroad for the same reason.
Anyone else here get that paranoid?
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Post by scumbuster on Apr 28, 2016 5:42:29 GMT -5
If someone really wants to put something in your bag it would be easy to just unwrap it and send it on its way. By the time you knew its unwrapped its already served its purpose and in the US. I don't give it a thought. Been doing it over 10 years.
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Post by búfalo on Apr 28, 2016 5:48:32 GMT -5
Paranoia. They'd what, follow you home then kill you to get their package?
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Post by jafo19d on Apr 28, 2016 6:00:48 GMT -5
I think of two possibilities.
1) Put something in your bag and have someone else intercept it in the US before the passenger picks it up in baggage claim
2) Placing a moderate amount in your bag so that you will get caught and get LE's attention while the mules carrying the serious stuff go thru unharnessed.
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Post by scumbuster on Apr 28, 2016 6:10:46 GMT -5
The wrapping isn't going to stop anything. My wife used to wrap her bags until she got it back several times with the wrap falling off. It had obviously been opened and checked by TSA. So wrapping doesn't provide any security. Once your bag is gone from your sight anything can happen, but that doesn't mean that something will happen. The only issues I have ever had going through security was when I had Panela in my bag. This apparently has been used in the past. Had one person break open every block of panela.
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Post by elexpatriado on Apr 28, 2016 10:16:20 GMT -5
naw..not paranoid at all...
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Post by jafo19d on Apr 28, 2016 11:41:18 GMT -5
naw..not paranoid at all... Paranoia kept me alive in 2 OIF tours and one OEF
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Post by coolcoil on Apr 28, 2016 11:41:56 GMT -5
The wrapping isn't going to stop anything. My wife used to wrap her bags until she got it back several times with the wrap falling off. It had obviously been opened and checked by TSA. So wrapping doesn't provide any security. Once your bag is gone from your sight anything can happen, but that doesn't mean that something will happen. The only issues I have ever had going through security was when I had Panela in my bag. This apparently has been used in the past. Had one person break open every block of panela. For what it's worth, the bags are supposed to be rewrapped if they are opened by the TSA. The wrapping companies have employees and wrapping equipment in the TSA inspection area for that purpose. I read an article about it in the Wall Street Journal a few years ago. If the wrapping is off the bag when you reclaim it, I wonder if it wasn't somebody attempting to pilfer sometime after TSA inspection. Of course, it could just have been poorly wrapped. I'm assuming, of course that your wife had the bag wrapped at the airport and did not do it herself. In that case, then the TSA would tear it off and it would not be rewrapped. As for the OP, think about this. If hiding something in somebody else's bag was a regular occurrence, it would be all over the news and you'd see dozens of travel articles warning you about it. I've made 18-24 flights per year from Colombia to the USA for nearly a decade and never had an issue with a checked bag, nor have I heard of this happening to anyone.
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Post by elexpatriado on Apr 28, 2016 13:58:09 GMT -5
Maybe Dian will put something in your bag after they unwrap it, and demand you declare your world wide income and pay 33% tax on it, plus your world wide assets and pay a 3% luxury tax- otherwise- to the over-crowded dirty carcel with the child molestors and narcos.
Or maybe nothing will happen , but you will have a heart attack or get bowel cancer worrying about and die before your time.
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