Originally Posted by susiesan

I arrive at MCI and go to the AA counter to check a suitcase and the well packed bread machine in a box. Agent asks "what's in the box?" I say a bread machine. She says "that's a first." She puts a luggage tag/sticker on it and I take it over to the x-ray.

TSA gal puts the heavy box on the conveyor while I'm watching. She asks what's in the box before the guy viewing the screen sees it. I say a bread machine. It goes through, comes out the other end, and she tells me it's fine, no need to open the box. When it arrived in ABQ after changing planes in DFW, it was still unopened, not damaged, it made it through as checked baggage in one piece safe and sound.