By the way - I see a great undercover journalism opportunity here.
Have a great experiment shipping computers, cash, gold-coins, opioid medicines on a statistically significant number of specific airline routes throughout the country.
Track the bags via GPS, and if technologically possible, where they are opened.
Results would be very interesting.
Respectfully, the results would not be interesting. The results would be, the stuff of value would be gone.
The next thing that happens should you try to expose it: You’d be accused of touting some whacko conspriracy theory and trying to game the system by making false claims when the mdse disappeared. The “defense” would bring up your NRA membership as proof of your whackoism, and then there was that time you got into a fight with Billy in the 5th grade. Then there was the ticket you got for rolling through a stop sign some years back.
TSA management would then close ranks and accuse you of racism and racial profiling while agreeing to review their regulations in a 100% boilerplate press release stressing diversity for a meeting that will never occur because special funds were never authorized for a 729-member trip to the Ritz Carlton on the CA coast for a 2-day intensive retreat.
45 days later, the whole thing will be forgotten by the introduction of 3-5 shiny objects in the interim. It’s just like fake votes appearing out of nowhere, except in reverse. This is stuff that never existed disappearing to nowhere.