No he's not an idiot, he's trying to keep planes on schedule. I supposed that at least once in the past 12 months some security agent dumped someone's underwear out of a suitcase at the gate and as a result departure was delayed while the passenger repacked things.

I wo0uld go along with a "voluntary intensive" security check well in advance of departure rather than be singled out at the gate and lose my boarding priority with airlines such as Southwest.

Why not select most of the passengers for underwear dumping earlier while they are sitting in the departure area before boarding, not after their row is called?

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Other things that make the government look like the idiot:

The code "G" instead of a cents amount on postage stamps for both postcards and regular letters and the only distinction (except for color which most of us don't commit to memory) is tiny words "postcard rate" that most people can't see at a glance. Why not "G" for regular letters and "H" for postcards? Once I had to make a special trip to the post office to buy postcard stamps after accidentally using up all my 20 cent G-postcard-rate stamps mailing 32 cent regular letters. (I forget the actual postage rates, and incidentally none of them came back for insufficient postage.)

Referring to the place on the back of check where people should sign, as the "leading edge". Almost nobody knows that technobabble. (Most checks would be properly endorsed if people were told to notice where "Pay to the order of..." was printed and sign on the back at that end.)



[This message has been edited by AllanJ (edited 09-21-2002).]