Baggage Wrap

[Pigsty333]

Just saw an ad that there will be a company providing the "Wrap Bag" services at MCO. Have you seen this at all, it is used a lot in airports around the world but is starting to be used here.

Here are some of the reasons why people use it:

Some reasons to wrap your bags:

It's quite simple:

You can spot more easily whether someone has opened it

It can not open by accident

The luggage doesn't get dirty

You don't want your expensive luggage to be scratched!

It is definitely going to provide the protection from the following things:

Tampering (or at least make it clearly evident)
Unauthorized items
Theft
Accidental openings
Stains
Weather (rain, snow, etc)

My understanding is that they are presently located right outside of the airport, will pick you up and your luggage, wrap it and transport you back to the airport along with your wrapped luggage.

 

[lovetoscrap]

Moving to the Transportation Board.

 

[Carriemel]

From a TSA officer, PLEASE do not do this. If for any reason a TSA officer needs to get into your bag, we will open it, and you will have wasted however much you paid to wrap the bag.

 

[Gorechick]

On a side note, can you lock your luggage anymore? Our suitcase will only have clothes in it and I'll probably put them in a space bag, but I don't want anything to go missing. Should I worry?

 

[chartle]

From a TSA officer, PLEASE do not do this. If for any reason a TSA officer needs to get into your bag, we will open it, and you will have wasted however much you paid to wrap the bag.

Thats what I was thinking also.

What exactly do they do, it sounds like they shrink wrap it.

ETA: In case anyone else was curious. $9 at JFK.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7HBvyzUySg

Also I see another market. Baggage unwrapping service, since what are you going to do, carry a box cutter in your carry on.

 

[mom2brooke76]

Here's another video. After watching it, I honestly feel sorry for any TSA agent that would have to deal with a bag like this (I would hate my job if I were them), and I personally would never want to deal with having to UNWRAP it!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46JAhm888KA&feature=related

 

[Jestocost]

On a side note, can you lock your luggage anymore? Our suitcase will only have clothes in it and I'll probably put them in a space bag, but I don't want anything to go missing. Should I worry?

You can lock your bag, but you should use a TSA approved lock that they can open. Otherwise, they'll just cut the lock off if they need to inspect the contents of the bag.

 

[chartle]

Here's another video. After watching it, I honestly feel sorry for any TSA agent that would have to deal with a bag like this (I would hate my job if I were them), and I personally would never want to deal with having to UNWRAP it!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46JAhm888KA&feature=related

You don't unwrap it. I'm assuming an agent would just pull out a knife and cut it off.

 

[EMAW_KSU]

You don't unwrap it. I'm assuming an agent would just pull out a knife and cut it off.

I would assume that also.

 

[seashoreCM]

Given that the bag may be opened by TSA, don't use the bag wrapping service. Don't waste your money.

If TSA opens the bag, the wrapping will be thrown away and the following advantages mentioned before will all be lost:

o It can not open by accident

o The luggage doesn't get dirty

o You don't want your expensive luggage to be scratched!

o It is definitely going to provide the other protections mentioned.

You don't unwrap it. I'm assuming an agent would just pull out a knife and cut it off.

... and scratch the surface of the bag underneath.

 

[sam_gordon]

I saw this in Cancun's airport. If I REALLY wanted to do something like this, I'd get a roll or two of Saran Wrap & some packaging tape & do it at home.

I'd hate to pay $10, and then TSA cuts it off.

 

[chartle]

Given that the bag may be opened by TSA, don't use the bag wrapping service. Don't waste your money.

If TSA opens the bag, the wrapping will be thrown away and the following advantages mentioned before will all be lost:



... and scratch the surface of the bag underneath.

Yea didn't want to go there.

 

[chartle]

I saw this in Cancun's airport. If I REALLY wanted to do something like this, I'd get a roll or two of Saran Wrap & some packaging tape & do it at home.

I'd hate to pay $10, and then TSA cuts it off.

Not saran wrap. Go to Home Depot and they sell the same stuff in their moving section. Its stretch wrap or plastic "Twine". YOu just don't get the same tightness as the machine.

This tech isn't new just a different application. Pallets have been wrapped like this for years with pretty much the same machine.

http://www.uline.com/Cls_03/Stretch-Wrap?pricode=WB287&gclid=CJy4oaq6lLECFQtThwodmnLIdA

 

[dudspizza]

and I could see some TSA agents cutting it off just to spite someone like that...... I am not knocking the TSA at all. I worked airport security before TSA existed and the job sucked. People could be real jerks.

Fast forward a few years in college and I am working at a highly know shipping company....... supervisors yelling at me and a full truck of boxes to unload..... supervisor turns his back and I pull the whole 8' high tower of boxes down...BAMM! I was so frustrated that I took it out on the boxes.....

I could see a TSA agent doing the same thing if they are frustrated...... cut off the wrap and possible accidentally cutting the bag underneath.....

 

[dudspizza]

Not saran wrap. Go to Home Depot and they sell the same stuff in their moving section. Its stretch wrap or plastic "Twine". YOu just don't get the same tightness as the machine.

This tech isn't new just a different application. Pallets have been wrapped like this for years with pretty much the same machine.

http://www.uline.com/Cls_03/Stretch-Wrap?pricode=WB287&gclid=CJy4oaq6lLECFQtThwodmnLIdA

HA! I get that catalog at home!

 

[NotUrsula]

The only real reason to use a service like this one is if you are traveling internationally and are heading to a country that has a serious theft problem by baggage handlers, monsoon rains, or a major problem with vermin. I know several people that I work with make a point of doing it when traveling to rural India in the rainy season, they do it to ward off mildew.

MIA is ground zero for baggage wrapping in the US because of the issues they have historically had with ramp personnel both with pilfering and with smuggling controlled substances in passenger baggage.