Originally Posted by
Starman
So at least for this flight, customs is openly giving up any pretense of screening arriving baggage, even as a rare spot check? Wonderful change for the pax, but if expanded it seems it's an unannounced move towards ending customs screening altogether. In theory I guess they could screen the transfer bag behind the scenes, but presumably this would require an increase in resources not previously used.
You are assuming that there was not already "behind the scenes" screening taking place.