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Jan 13, 2005 | 3:55 pm

#16

Peetah

Join Date: Jul 2004

Posts: 704

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Originally Posted by LessO2

Or to buy more sophisticated equipment that would not require TSA screenings that make one feel violated.

Amen on that! Of course, having my genitals irradiated by a (back)scatter(brained) x-ray device vs having the grope, I'll take the grope. This will change when I become an old man who no longer wants kids.

Jan 13, 2005 | 9:38 pm

#17

Richelieu

Join Date: Jun 2004

Location: SXB

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Originally Posted by studentff

If it were me and TSA were not going to replace my locks, I'd take the thing on an international trip and then mail it back to TSA from some extremely remote location via the most expensive express mail with an insured/estimated value of a couple thousand dollars (for customs purposes, and since I could claim ignorance as to the value of the device), postage due.

First, is it lawful in the US to destroy someone else's property? I mean, he was using TSA locks, in order to comply with the regulation mandating the use of such locks, so why can't he simply sue the TSA instead of dealing with them.

Regarding your suggestion, sending a DHL package from Beijing to the Western world, 2-days delivery, is 1040 yuans, or 126 dollars. Of course, I enquired for sending inexpensive items with no risk of breakage (clothes back home, as I didn't want my souvenirs to get lost in airport and wanted to keep them as carry on). Add to that: