{"id":184023,"date":"2019-08-10T23:28:06","date_gmt":"2019-08-11T04:28:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/heres-how-you-can-get-back-the-stuff-that-tsa-confiscated-from-you"},"modified":"2019-08-10T23:28:14","modified_gmt":"2019-08-11T04:28:14","slug":"heres-how-you-can-get-back-the-stuff-that-tsa-confiscated-from-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/heres-how-you-can-get-back-the-stuff-that-tsa-confiscated-from-you","title":{"rendered":"Here&rsquo;s How You Can Get Back the Stuff That TSA Confiscated from You"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Think you could get away with sneaking that tropical outcome from vacation along on your flight? Think again. Good-for-nothing is worse than watching helplessly as the TSA agent pulls the treasured cargo out of your carry-on and pitches it in their bin of confiscated parts. So long for now, sugared keepsake.( Maybe you should have tried <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rd.com\/advice\/travel\/prohibited-items-sneak-through-tsa\/\">the proscribed components least likely to get expropriated by the TSA<\/a>, instead .) <\/p>\n<p>&#8221; The most frequent excuse we hear from travelers for prohibited entries is:&#8217; I forgot it was in my container, &#8216;&#8221; the TSA blog <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsa.gov\/blog\/2019\/07\/10\/tsa-week-review-july-1-7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">notes<\/a>.&#8221; Don&rsquo;t be that person. Save yourself some coin and humiliation and exhaustively check your purses for prohibited parts before heading to the airport .&#8221; You might be surprised by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsa.gov\/travel\/security-screening\/whatcanibring\/all\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">what TSA allows you to carry on and doesn&#8217;t<\/a>. Chicken wings, for example, are OK to carry on. That herb grinder shaped like a grenade? Not so much.<\/p>\n<p>But don&#8217;t give up hope hitherto! You may be able to recover your expropriated hoards. The government has strict rules it must follow for disposing of confiscated quality, USA Today <a href=\"https:\/\/traveltips.usatoday.com\/tsa-confiscated-items-108803.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reports<\/a>. Some airfields have contractors pick the asset up or bequeath it. And regimes also sell expropriated entries that aren&#8217;t illegal.<\/p>\n<p>Travel expert <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mccooltravel.com\/author\/mccooljb\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Julie McCool<\/a> was of the view that on a return excursion from Ireland, TSA didn&#8217;t allow a snowfall world her son bought as a souvenir.&#8221; He was so upset that I made the time to take the snowfall globe apart and dump out the spray inside ,&#8221; she says.&#8221; Regrettably, I was never able to reassemble the globe back at home .&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Most people who encounter this situation choose to abandon the item because it&#8217;s usually something irrelevant, McCool notes.<\/p>\n<p>But if there&#8217;s an item you&#8217;ve got your middle set on recovering, there are some regions you can search. On <a href=\"https:\/\/www.govdeals.com\/index.cfm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Govdeals.com<\/a>, state authorities sell surplus or expropriated goods via a auction organisation. Components to be provided by the TSA often include pocket knives, corkscrews, and bottle openers&#8211;along with any of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rd.com\/advice\/travel\/items-taken-by-tsa\/\">the oddest things the TSA have confiscated<\/a>. Simply search under the category of your missing component and cross your digits that it shows up. You may have to shell out a few bucks to recover it, but that certainly vanquishes coming a new one if it&#8217;s special to you.<\/p>\n<p>And don&rsquo;t worry; the TSA isn&#8217;t selling your belongings for a profit. After an outside contractor removes the &ldquo;contraband&rdquo; from the airport, territory then buy the expropriated items and resell them online for some extra cash. Another good region to examine is USA.gov, where you can search for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usa.gov\/state-surplus-sales\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">surplus auctions by mood<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Can&#8217;t learn your long-lost item on the Internet? Try a nearby surplus core, another target where items from lost or expropriated luggage end up.<\/p>\n<p>But if you&#8217;re attempting to recover an expensive shampoo or bottle of wine, we have some bad news: The TSA immediately threshes all expropriated liquids. Lesson learned! Make sure you&rsquo;re not making any of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rd.com\/advice\/travel\/air-travel-tips\/\">these airport corrects<\/a> before your next flight, too.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rd.com\/advice\/travel\/return-confiscated-items-tsa\/\">Here&#8217;s How You Can Get Back the Stuff That TSA Confiscated from You<\/a> performed first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rd.com\">Reader&#8217;s Digest<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\"><\/div>\n<p>Read more: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rd.com\/advice\/travel\/return-confiscated-items-tsa\/\">rd.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Think you could get away with sneaking that tropical outcome from vacation along on your flight? Think again. Good-for-nothing is worse than watching helplessly as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184023\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}