Originally Posted by
Often1
Presuming that OP is being fully truthful, for some reason, OP's bag wound up being run through a scanner somewhere between its arrival at IAD and its delivery to him.
I guess there is a possibility that the misrouting meant that the bags up going through a TSA scan before being delivered to him at IAD, but I still fail to see how the OP can conclude
without any doubt that a TSA scan, not the time to it took to transfer the bags to the correct location, was the reason for the luggage delivery delay at IAD:
Now I know the real reason for my baggage delay in IAD, the TSA was doing its “due diligence”.
More likely, the poor packing job happened at the TSA scan after the luggage was dropped off at IAD post-customs, not because of any pre-customs TSA scan that's not supposed to happen, and likely didn't happen, in this case.