This has been my experience also, most of the time. Both in C and also domestic F class, even though I always request a Priority Tag every time a do check a bag. In fact, I just returned from a trip to Flint, Michigan. I arrived there on Friday, my bag arrived there on Saturday. A mechanical delay had put me on a later flight than planned, and even though I requested that they pull my bag from the "disabled" plane and move it to my new flight, and even though the GA radioed to the ramp guys with a description (including the "priority tag" which would have made it very easy to spot) they did not manage to find the time to do that. Decreased staffing appears to be taking it's toll, resulted in much decreased levels of service. Perhaps VegasAgent can enlighten us on whether those "priority bags" are really segregated and treated differently from the other bags by the ramp personnel. In most cases, I suspect they are not.