Originally Posted by
Often1
Locking your bag is a bad idea in the first place. Just as happy to have an Officer cut the locks as it saves time and that moves bags faster,
The whole "TSA-approved lock" thing is a marketing gimmick for the manufacturers and nobody should count on the time waste it creates.
You're presuming that TSA clerks cannot be trained to master the complex operation of opening a lock with a key. I cannot provide compelling evidence that you are wrong, but this problem can be addressed by the TSA. The TSA purports to have implemented a solution to the problem of locking one's bag in a manner that it can be opened by TSA clerks in a nondestructive way. If the process of unlocking a lock is too difficult for TSA clerks to master, the TSA can solve this problem by raising its hiring standards.