Re: [100attendees] Good experience with customs and immigration in Singapore

+1 

Sue 

From: 100attendees [mailto:100attendees-bounces@ietf.org] On Behalf Of Mehmet Ersue
Sent: Friday, November 10, 2017 6:51 PM
To: 'Glenn McKnight'; 'Randy Bush'
Cc: 'Stephane Bortzmeyer'; 100attendees@ietf.org
Subject: Re: [100attendees] Good experience with customs and immigration in Singapore

Simply walked through customs.

Cheers,

Mehmet

From: 100attendees [mailto:100attendees-bounces@ietf.org] On Behalf Of Glenn McKnight
Sent: Thursday, November 9, 2017 3:44 PM
To: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
Cc: Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer+ietf@nic.fr>fr>; 100attendees@ietf.org
Subject: Re: [100attendees] Good experience with customs and immigration in Singapore

I recently donated a full large suitcase of  Laptops and a projector to a school in Kenya and its was handed off in Abu Dhabi to the recipient.  Not sure if they had a problem heading home.  Early in June i took a  Chainsaw to Kenya.  Again no problem

G 

Glenn McKnight

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On Thu, Nov 9, 2017 at 9:32 AM, Randy Bush <randy@psg.com> wrote:

>> I watched the customs lines. I saw about 100 people walk through the
>> green "nothing to declare" line. Not one of them was stopped.
>
> I did the same today and I saw approximatively one person among five
> asked to put his/her bag in the scanner. I was not able to
> reverse-engineer the algorithm used for the selection. It seems
> compatible with a random selection.

my bags were scanned on the weekend.  they had multiple laptops,
raspberry pis, dongles, botles and bags of medicines, ...

i got the "you are a geek, eh?" look and that was it.

otoh, the fiorst leg of this trip was entering the states.  i got
a tsa slip in the bag.  i guess they could not see my beard.

randy

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