On Sun, 08 Feb 2004 14:53:27 -0500, Tom Fleischman
wrote:

In article , Nathan Young
wrote:


It is irritating that there isn't an option to mail your stuff back
home at the airport. It is so easy to be in a rush on the way to the
airport and to forget to take something out of your pockets or laptop
bag. At ORD, they are collecting 100s if not 1000s of items a day
from passengers. Wonder what happens to them? Maybe the TSA workers
get a nice pocketknife collection.

Along with my nice digital camera which was stolen out of my checked
luggage on a flight from LAX to EWR last year. I didn't even mind
losing the camera that much, but losing the priceless photos it
contained really burned me. It had to taken by either the TSA or by
the airline baggage handlers. I suspect the TSA because it had to have
shown up on the xray. They won't let you lock your luggage, and there
is no way to prove that anything has been stolen. That's the last time
I put anything of value in a checked bag. From now on I will FedEx
anything of value ahead before I leave.

Man - that really sucks. Sorry to hear it.

-Nathan