Passports are now not valid for TSA security for domestic flights?

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Feb 22, 2012, 12:25 pm

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So we'd still be stuck with the other 90%?

That would be awfully high IMO.

Feb 22, 2012, 1:05 pm

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So we'd still be stuck with the other 90%?

The more common definition of decimate:

Verb:

Kill, destroy, or remove a large percentage of.

Feb 22, 2012, 2:21 pm

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It often takes longer to check a passport, because the clerk has to page through it to make sure there's nothing suspicious in it.

But how would they know if something was suspicious?

Feb 22, 2012, 4:50 pm

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But how would they know if something was suspicious?

If they don't understand it, then it must be suspicious (and suspicious might mean 'the big catch', and 'the big catch' might mean you get to be on GMA and youtube!)

Feb 23, 2012, 3:34 am

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But how would they know if something was suspicious?

If it's written in non-Roman letters. Like that squiggle writing that them furrin terr'ists use.

Feb 23, 2012, 6:37 am

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If it's written in non-Roman letters. Like that squiggle writing that them furrin terr'ists use.

Oh, no!

I have seen that squiggle writing. I have to say something. It was written right on my boarding pass by someone in a blue shirt with a shiny badge.

Now, if I can just find that number. . .

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Feb 23, 2012, 6:57 am

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If it's written in non-Roman letters. Like that squiggle writing that them furrin terr'ists use.

Or maybe those Arabic numbers?

Feb 23, 2012, 7:11 am

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Recently I had a TSA employee ask for a driver's license (instead of my Passport) as I was traveling domestically, I responded that I left my driver's license at home as I was not intending to drive on this trip.

He said do you have any other form of picture ID, I responded that I have my COSTCO card, to which he said, let me see that. I handed him my really old COSTCO card, he looked at it, handed it back to me and said have a nice trip.

Very odd,
Dan

Feb 23, 2012, 9:26 am

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Now, don't you feel safer?

Feb 23, 2012, 11:25 am

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I used my American passport to get through Security on my JFK-ATL flight with no problem -- but, then again, New Yorkers consider everything south of DC to be a foreign nation.

Feb 23, 2012, 11:44 am

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It often takes longer to check a passport, because the clerk has to page through it to make sure there's nothing suspicious in it.

i've NEVER had a TDC thumb through my passport. they look at the photo page, shine the fancy light on it and then we're done

Feb 23, 2012, 11:53 am

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i've NEVER had a TDC thumb through my passport. they look at the photo page, shine the fancy light on it and then we're done

I have - at IAD and BOS. I imagine that at BOS these days you'd get interrogated about where you'd been. Passport card avoids that.

Feb 23, 2012, 12:59 pm

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Now, don't you feel safer?

Oh so much safer

My COSTCO card has more than once been inspected by TSA, oddly that is almost as good as Gov't issued Picture ID.

Dan

Feb 23, 2012, 1:10 pm

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It often takes longer to check a passport, because the clerk has to page through it to make sure there's nothing suspicious in it.

We've been told by a TSA employee that there is some sort of security feature inside the book. A number of us have looked, in both current and expired passports, for this feature but have not found it.

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My COSTCO card has more than once been inspected by TSA, oddly that is almost as good as Gov't issued Picture ID.

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