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Old May 19, 2018, 1:17 pm
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Originally Posted by canadiancow
I'm not sure those are good comparisons.

When a baggage issue moves from "inconvenience" towards "life destroying", you need a backup plan.
We can debate the examples used. Or recognize my being facetious. My point remains: reasonable care was taken to guard against the likelihood of loss or damage. There is a certain segment of society who sees options as binary, as either 1 or 0 (am I even using this digital-speak correctly?). Such people sometimes have difficulties with using a risk-assessment matrix, to borrow an industry term, for the more mundane facts of life and travel. I think it's been ably demonstrated upthread on why shipping a backup set of high jump poles is problematic to most, no matter the, er, stakes involved.
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