Comments on: Photo of new checkpoint friendly bag

By: Raffaella

Raffaella — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 15:43:30 +0000

Thank’s for sharing!I want one of these for my next business trip!

By: triMan

triMan — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 22:06:35 +0000

They work. If you have ever had you laptop scratched or worse at those X-ray lines you would appreciate these new bags. The one I use is calledthe turbobag

By: Odin

Odin — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 13:09:07 +0000

This is exactly why in the UK for example you now can leave your laptop in the bag when going through security.

All this is window dressing, the whole job of the TSA is to give the traveling public a secure feeling, that’s it.

By: MB

MB — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 14:35:14 +0000

You better slow down real fast.

By: olly

olly — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 14:25:49 +0000

If you understand the acronyms CASS, DPV, NCOA, RDI, LACS, as well as the rules surrounding Carrier Route, Simplified Addressing, Palletization, etc, and how much they’ve changed over the last few years then you’d understand. Or, instead of talking smack, why not go ask mommy to make you another sandwich, retreat to the basement fort you made, and get back to playing Second Life, mmmkay sparky? ;)

-olly

By: Tim

Tim — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 07:16:04 +0000

Correct me if Im wrong but is this really X-ray we are talking about here? Cause X-rays certainly can pass through clothes and even some thin metal plates. So unless your average laptop bag is fully armored I dont see why they wont “see” the laptop in the bag.

By: Ben Bosma

Ben Bosma — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 03:03:37 +0000

We’ve been using the checkpoint friendly laptop bag since May and haven’t had a TSO turn us away. The way it works is so obvious and works so well it’s a relief to them as well as the traveler.

This is going to be the standard laptop bag if you’re ever going to go through X-ray screening.

-Ben

By: Greg

Greg — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 23:20:30 +0000

What the heck USPS legislation are you talking about? You are stupid.

By: olly

olly — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 21:25:21 +0000

I’m sorry, but I’m massively skeptical at the prospect of this working, and in fact think it’ll probably make things worse. company works very closely with the USPS, and like any other government branch (including the TSA), the people at the top can do whatever they want in terms of legislation, but expecting that to uniformly translate into action at the frontline level is ridiculous. There are USPS workers who have never even heard of legislation that was passed 2 years ago, and I have to constantly argue with them, and point out the actual regulation language, then wait for them to check with their superiors, who check with their superiors, and so on and so forth up the line. In the end, I tell my customers that it’s more important to keep their local postmaster happy then it is to be right — being right doesn’t get your mail sent out if the local postmaster hasn’t got a clue.

Imagine some rep at the front line level, who’s been trained to tell you to take yoru laptop out for the last few years — do you really want to stand around and argue TSA regulations with them? Or try to somehow prove that your bag fits within those regulations?

Please.

-olly