As someone who (used to) travel a lot, the TSA have signs plastered throughout the entire security line to remind you to look through your belongings and make sure you don't have any banned items (they included what they were and had pictures of them too). If you went through airport security with a banned item (such as a knife), what they did was offer you three choices:
- They let you go back outside of security and come back without it (the idea being is you go back to your car and put it back)
- They had a small mailing station where you could mail it back to yourself (you had to pay for mailing, IIRC it was like $5-10)
- They let you go back outside of security and come back without it (the idea being is you go back to your car and put it back)
- They had a small mailing station where you could mail it back to yourself (you had to pay for mailing, IIRC it was like $5-10)
- You let them confiscate it
It's not like what they consider banned items on airplanes are a secret. They even have a Twitter https://twitter.com/tsa/status/862098615472455680 and facebook page https://www.facebook.com/AskTSA where you can ask if an item is ok to go through security!
I am genuinely curious as to what they should do better.