How secure are TSA mini-padlocks?
Nov 4, 2007 | 1:21 pm
#16
Join Date: May 2006
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Zip ties
As a matter of interest - how do you open the zip ties? Some airline once put them on my bags (why - go figure - they already had a lock)? My carry-on obviously doesn't have anything good enough to open them.
After walking round my hotel room for a couple of minutes, looking for a suitable object, I took my bag down again and asked the hotel concierge to do the necessary.
After walking round my hotel room for a couple of minutes, looking for a suitable object, I took my bag down again and asked the hotel concierge to do the necessary.
Nov 4, 2007 | 2:55 pm
#17
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Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: San Francisco
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As a matter of interest - how do you open the zip ties? Some airline once put them on my bags (why - go figure - they already had a lock)? My carry-on obviously doesn't have anything good enough to open them.
After walking round my hotel room for a couple of minutes, looking for a suitable object, I took my bag down again and asked the hotel concierge to do the necessary.
After walking round my hotel room for a couple of minutes, looking for a suitable object, I took my bag down again and asked the hotel concierge to do the necessary.
If it is pulled tight, use the concierge.
Nov 4, 2007 | 3:02 pm
#18
Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: NW Fla. - VPS, PNS
Programs: DL, NW, HH
Posts: 333
As a matter of interest - how do you open the zip ties? Some airline once put them on my bags (why - go figure - they already had a lock)? My carry-on obviously doesn't have anything good enough to open them.
After walking round my hotel room for a couple of minutes, looking for a suitable object, I took my bag down again and asked the hotel concierge to do the necessary.
After walking round my hotel room for a couple of minutes, looking for a suitable object, I took my bag down again and asked the hotel concierge to do the necessary.
I pull mine tight so there's no loop to use to twist with something else.
Nov 5, 2007 | 10:30 pm
#19
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Nov 6, 2007 | 10:03 am
#20
Join Date: Dec 2006
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Do TSA locks work?
I've been through 10 of them this year alone! They either forget to put them back on or are taken somewhere along the line by baggage handlers looking for valuables. I've gone back to using cable ties pulled all the way down. If you fly from an airport like BNA, Southwest has a TSA checkpoint there that, in most cases, opens and checks every bag before it goes down the conveyor belt. In that case, I simply put the unfastened tie through the lock holes and they are very good about replacing it and pulling it all the way down before sending it on. Much improved system with less theft than we used to experience there.