<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by AllanJ:
File a simultaneous claim with the airline before leaving the airport. You handed them the bag and it came back to you not intact.
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Some very good advice... my carrier is replacing the 4 locks cut off my luggage on my most recent trip. For the record, none of the bags were locked - the TSA was too d@mn lazy to check before cutting them off.