Take Your Business Cards Out at Security
If you’re a business traveler and you travel with hundreds of business cards going to and from tradeshows, make sure you take them out at airport security screening points and put them in a separate bin, just as you do with your laptop. If you don’t, I can pretty much guarantee that the security agents will flag them and search your whole bag—which will take a lot longer (especially at LHR) than just taking them out to begin with.
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I just got flagged going thru TSA pre-check security line at SFO for my box of 1000 business cards. Googled it and found this article!
Agents at HOU tried to open the crematory container of my dad’s ashes, before I stopped them. It was clearly labeled. No words.
We had a friend that had their luggage searched bringing in a brick of coffee