Originally Posted by N965VJ

Although the TSA takes great pride in patting itself on the back each time they catch someone with drugs, this is not a threat to commercial aviation.

Originally Posted by FliesWay2Much

My experience, including some with a couple of LE agencies, is that they use this informal and unregulated handling system because they are too lazy to set up a real information security program and think it's too much trouble to buy safes, shredders, and encrypted comm.