Mail program sends small, sharp objects back to airline passengers

Airline passengers flying out of Bradley International Airport no longer have to worry about having to forfeit small, sharp objects at the security gates.

Screeners are still not permitting passengers to take penknives and other sharp objects on the plane, but the airport is allowing people to keep their pocket knives and corkscrews through a new "mail-back" program.

The Transportation Security Administration, the U.S. Postal Service and the company that runs gift stores in both terminals at Bradley have teamed up to let travelers keep banned items and still make their flights.

Screeners have been seizing nearly everything metal with a blade or point ever since terrorists used box-cutters to highjack four commercial airplanes in the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. Hundreds of objects were shipped to landfills.

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