Originally Posted by p1cunnin
Your home is MCI, which, as I recall, is an airport staffed by contractors, not TSA, and all bags are brought to the scanner by pax or the skycap. So that means...
1) The skycap is opening bags and putting in the TSA message. That is a huge issue. First, someone other than TSA is opening bags and putting (at least) the TSA message inside -- while removing (or adding) god knows what. That alone should get TSA's very serious attention, as well as some LEO attention. With the curb 20 feet from the scanners, I'm having trouble figuring out where that could happen, short of the skycap taking the bag into a break room or someplace similar.
2) The skycap is working with the TSA-contractors to place the message in designated bags. Again, a serious issue. If a bag is being opened not because of a security issue, but because of a tip issue -- even by a TSA contractor -- that, again, is a serious breach.
3) The skycap is writing on the TSA form and the TSA contractors are inserting those forms into any bag that they legitimately open. Not as serious unless the TSA contractors know what is on the form and are allowing this to happen.
Yep...each curbside has an airlined employed Skycap with a TSA scanner behind them. The slip isn't out of the norm cause everytime the search your bag they toss one in...so Isee this about every other flight. Of course the Skycap writing is very out of the norm...lol...and pisses me off a bit.
My father and I talked about this shortly after I returned from the trip and we both were thinking there would be some federal regulations against tampering with this document.