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Old Jan 9, 2019 | 7:40 pm
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Originally Posted by Often1
Evading inspection carries a potential civil penalty of just over $13,000. Just because something has worked in the past does not mean that it will work today or that you won't run into the wrong CBP Officer on the wrong day.

All a risk tolerance issue.
Oh, please. It's not avoiding inspection. Customs will still inspect the bag before it enters the US.

Baggage shows up late all the time. CBP doesn't sit there verifying the airline baggage scan data against the flight the passenger arrived on as part of inspection.
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