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Old Jan 3, 2012 | 3:41 pm
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Originally Posted by DaDaDan
I've never seen this actually enforced. I'm sure if you brought in something the size of a filing cabinet, they'd balk. But, I doubt they'd notice a few inches over. Probably because weight is eazy to check now that there are scales everywhere, but most agents probably don't have a tape measure handy to check the size.
This sounds right. If the bag doesn't obviously look much bigger than the 62 linear inch models, it should be OK because they will not notice or bother to check.
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