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

Glenn McKnight <mcknight.glenn@gmail.com> Thu, 09 November 2017 14:43 UTC

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