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

Randy Bush <randy@psg.com> Thu, 09 November 2017 14:32 UTC

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>> 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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