Originally Posted by
G-CIVC
You guys may not be doing it correctly
You can still head to the white zone for F check in. One of the graceful PST ladies in long skirts will escort you to the dedicated (one and only one) F check in desk for US flights.
I also see a quite notable correlation between accumulated # of stickers and degree/# of f***s given by the security people for questioning.
Flew out of HKG a few weeks back. This time, officer asked some different questions. How long was I traveling? What is the nature of my business? etc...
Then she looked at all the security stickers on the back of the passport and said "Oh ... you are a frequent traveler". Then she said she needed to remove all the old stickers and did so.