Originally Posted by velotimbe
DO NOT TAPE UP YOUR BOXES AHEAD OF TIME ANYMORE!!! The TSA will make you open them, remove the bike from the box,
If you're lucky. When I collected my extremely carefully packed box it had been ripped open and all the bits just shoved back in haphazardly without my carefully constructed foam packaging and spacers and taped together with tape with TSA logos on it. Miraculously nothing was damaged.
I also did my best to be charming to the girl at the check in counter and she didn't charge the $80 (even though she said she should have)