Originally Posted by LessO2
Which, forutnately, is about 98% of the time. I have some items I do not like to roll on the rollers, opting to place them directly onto the belt.
About three years ago, I got a TSAer at MSP who....A) gave me a lesson on how rollers don't damage anything, etc and B) probably got beat up in school a lot for his lunch money.
I asked him the same question, whether it shows up on the x-ray differently or not. Didn't get answer to that for some reason.
Back to the OP: seems to me that the TSA should encourage using bins in the OP's case, if it did provide protection for the item. But then again, when has common sense ever been employed in the TSA?
it does not make any differnce in the x-ray machine..
however in my case when we load at SFO we load on the passenger side,which means that I cant run back and retrieve the bins to use again...
so when I see overside bags or closed bags that dont look fragile or that nothing wont fall out, and I see that I only have a certain number of bins and a long line I opt to let the passenger know that I will be taking the bag out...ofcourse if they say no then the bin is used,
laptops, loose items,bags opened and fragile things should be some of the items for the bins..