I posted this in response to another thread on locking luggage but it bears repeating here:

Do yourself a favor and ship your gear. Don't let the TSA get near it. A friend checked a brand new monitor through and they opened it to search it, including removing it from the plastic bag. When it arrived it was missing the plastic bag and the power cord, had been placed in the box backwards so that it did not align with the styrofoam packing at the bottom, and they just decided to leave the top packing material out of the box.

$@%#&#ing IDIOTS!

Edited for better expletive censoring



[This message has been edited by tazi (edited 02-04-2003).]