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The first rule of flying with medication is that it goes in the carry-on, over everything else. If you can't fit so much as a book alongside your meds? Tough,

The first rule of flying with medication is that it goes in the carry-on, over everything else. If you can't fit so much as a book alongside your meds? Tough, meds have priority. In the US at least, the airline simply isn't allowed to make you check your medication, and the TSA is not allowed to confiscate prescription medication in its original container. OTC stuff, beyond what you need on the actual flight, should just be purchased at the destination. FedEx in that context is probably because it has less trouble getting through customs, rather than for airline employees.

wredue 3y ago
They don’t “confiscate” meds. They steal them. I’ve never flew and got my bag back with the lock still on it (it was taken off and rummaged through). My wife has had underwear stolen. My kids gym shoes were stolen. It’s like airlines require a criminal history for bag service. Always take important or expensive stuff in carry on.
- mcpackieh 3y ago
  > It’s like airlines require a criminal history for bag service. Well hey, they did their time and paid their debt to society right? Should they continue being unemployable for life, forced to return to a life of crime? Give those guys a second chance to earn an honest living and show the world they aren't defined by their past. (Is it actually true that airlines hire people with criminal histories to handle luggage? I think they actually require clean background checks for those jobs, for obvious reasons, but such background checks are often the subject of the sort of criticism I just presented.)
  - Eisenstein 3y ago
    What's more likely, stuff gets lost or kids forget to pack it, or this guy has gotten perv bag handlers that can sniff out women's underwear and children's gym shoes and stole them, risking their job in the process? If they weren't able to sniff them out, then they rummage through bags randomly as they are running down conveyor belts to find clothing items and shoes to steal.
    - pengaru 3y ago
      For some seeing a trivially defeated security mechanism like a luggage lock is an invitation to defeat it. Doubly so if it's attached to expensive luggage...
  - JimtheCoder 3y ago
    "Well hey, they did their time and paid their debt to society right? Should they continue being unemployable for life, forced to return to a life of crime? Give those guys a second chance to earn an honest living and show the world they aren't defined by their past." While this is true, it may be a good idea to employ them in jobs where it isn't tempting/super easy to get away with theft? Roofers, plumbers, and the like have a lot harder time stealing things than airplane baggage handlers...
- amalcon 3y ago
  > They don’t “confiscate” meds. They steal them. Which is why you put them in your carry-on: so that it is never in possession of the baggage handlers. The TSA employees at the security checkpoint won't generally steal things right in front of your face and under the cameras.

wredue 3y ago

They don’t “confiscate” meds. They steal them. I’ve never flew and got my bag back with the lock still on it (it was taken off and rummaged through). My wife has had underwear stolen. My kids gym shoes were stolen. It’s like airlines require a criminal history for bag service. Always take important or expensive stuff in carry on.

mcpackieh 3y ago
> It’s like airlines require a criminal history for bag service. Well hey, they did their time and paid their debt to society right? Should they continue being unemployable for life, forced to return to a life of crime? Give those guys a second chance to earn an honest living and show the world they aren't defined by their past. (Is it actually true that airlines hire people with criminal histories to handle luggage? I think they actually require clean background checks for those jobs, for obvious reasons, but such background checks are often the subject of the sort of criticism I just presented.)
- Eisenstein 3y ago
  What's more likely, stuff gets lost or kids forget to pack it, or this guy has gotten perv bag handlers that can sniff out women's underwear and children's gym shoes and stole them, risking their job in the process? If they weren't able to sniff them out, then they rummage through bags randomly as they are running down conveyor belts to find clothing items and shoes to steal.
  - pengaru 3y ago
    For some seeing a trivially defeated security mechanism like a luggage lock is an invitation to defeat it. Doubly so if it's attached to expensive luggage...
- JimtheCoder 3y ago
  "Well hey, they did their time and paid their debt to society right? Should they continue being unemployable for life, forced to return to a life of crime? Give those guys a second chance to earn an honest living and show the world they aren't defined by their past." While this is true, it may be a good idea to employ them in jobs where it isn't tempting/super easy to get away with theft? Roofers, plumbers, and the like have a lot harder time stealing things than airplane baggage handlers...
amalcon 3y ago
> They don’t “confiscate” meds. They steal them. Which is why you put them in your carry-on: so that it is never in possession of the baggage handlers. The TSA employees at the security checkpoint won't generally steal things right in front of your face and under the cameras.