it had been a while! Welcome back, corporate police! Your "good" intentions will be rewarded...some day.

FedEx code does work in a few places, e.g Conrad Tokyo. Definitely less sexy than some others though...
Regarding the chance to be "ID checked", everybody has his own idea... However, if, God forbid, I were to try this kind of *insert some sort of pseudo-ethical rant here*, I would definitely try it at Hilton rather than at Hyatt and the higher the status the better.