[QUOTE=TakeScissorsAway;7025608]All checked bags are screened. A bag doesn't have to be opened to be screened. I think the "5th or 6th bag" refers to the opening of the bag.

Plus, it has been my experiance, that you can go 20 to 30 bags without opening any of them. Then on other occasions, it seems every other bag has to been gone thru. Alot depends on what's in the bag to begin with.[/QUOTE

"I think" the "5th or 6th bag" refers to the opening of the bag. - Perhaps - perhaps not. I cannot intuit what the airline and/or Homeland Security writer meant. In the context of my comment I construed screening to be "opening of the bag."

I will write a follow up letter and hope that the person is still in the employ of the airline and/or HS. If so, I should expect a response within five or six months.