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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;calcol, post: 3305221, member: 77639&quot;]You posted &quot; Your carry on is all scanned in x-ray at some point in your travel in civilized countries.&quot;&nbsp; in response to my post on Customs inspections.&nbsp; There are valuable items that you can put in your carry-on, and the boarding security personnel won&#039;t care in most countries.&nbsp; $1000-worth of cigars, no problem; several thousand dollars value of rare coins, no problem.&nbsp; However, at the US end, Customs will care a great deal about these.&nbsp; And yes, folks do manage to get contraband, especially drugs, on to commercial flights, and yes, some do get caught by US Customs at their port of entry.&nbsp; Then there are private boats and planes where there is no outgoing inspection in many cases.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ve carried coins on to domestic US flights many times.&nbsp; The only time TSA was interested was when I had some rolls of common Morgans that showed as large cylindrical objects on x-ray.&nbsp; We ended up having a nice discussion of coin collecting.&nbsp; They had no interest at all in the much more valuable slabs in the same carry-on.&nbsp; However, if I had been coming into the US with this lot, Customs might have been very interested in all of it.</p><p><br /></p><p>There is overlap in the interests of TSA and US Customs (weapons, for example), but it&#039;s not complete by any means.</p><p><br /></p><p>Pretty sure bringing merchandise into the country with you on a plane is considered shipping by Customs.&nbsp; And pretty sure if Customs holds-up merchandise being imported by Fortune 500 companies, Customs officials at the highest level will hear some meaningful feedback.</p><p><br /></p><p>Cal[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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