Any Visible ID Changes Yet?
Jun 8, 2008 | 2:04 pm
#91
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Actually, not half-bad ideas. Though I'd suggest saran-wrapping one's ID before applying the layer of jelly.
Jun 8, 2008 | 2:10 pm
#92
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Non-food in a sandwich actually is suspicious. Non-food in an envelope is not. Plus there is nothing preventing them from opening up your sandwich to search it. But wrapping the ID is definitely a good idea if you go the sandwich route.
Jun 8, 2008 | 3:23 pm
#93
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The problem Cee is that we really don't know that. Your agency has placed itself above the law, accounts to no-one and creates rules to do whatever it wants.
As one of your fellow screeners stated over on the TSA Blog;
"It's all well to know the rules, but when you're on the checkpoint sometimes the rules get "changed" to suit the situation."
I don't trust anyone connected to DHS/TSA!
I think your senior leadership is a danger to this country!
My concern now is how much additional damage can they cause before being replaced in a few months.
Jun 8, 2008 | 3:23 pm
#94
Join Date: May 2007
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Sorry to disagree, but unless its actually mailed, and thus in the possession of the USPS, it's not mail. Simply putting it into an envelope and affixing a stamp does not make it mail. It makes it an envelope that is intended to be mailed, but not yet applicable to the rules below.
Jun 8, 2008 | 5:47 pm
#96
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Pax can be as paranoid as TSOs: the Peanut Butter Plot
Danger, bad advice, this is obviously a SSI TSA plot to entrap Flyertalkers. 
In the hot summer peanut butter is soft, you are just daring some TSO to confiscate your PBJ as "too gel like." Don't forget peanut butter looks like C4 on the xray, stick your smart card with a chip in a PBJ and "OMG electronics inside explosive, it's an IED, call the bomb squad water cannon to blast this thing!" 
In the hot summer peanut butter is soft, you are just daring some TSO to confiscate your PBJ as "too gel like." Don't forget peanut butter looks like C4 on the xray, stick your smart card with a chip in a PBJ and "OMG electronics inside explosive, it's an IED, call the bomb squad water cannon to blast this thing!"
Jun 10, 2008 | 7:27 am
#97
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Sorry to disagree, but unless its actually mailed, and thus in the possession of the USPS, it's not mail. Simply putting it into an envelope and affixing a stamp does not make it mail. It makes it an envelope that is intended to be mailed, but not yet applicable to the rules below.
Say I mail my DL to my SO (who lives with me), and then fly with the unopened envelope. Would it violate postal rules for me (or TSA) to open it?