MG, If you simply state that you wish to ride the jumpseat, why not ask if you may present your credentials to the cockpit yourself? If we are at the boarding door we generally do not have the ability to disappear into the cockpit for several minutes.(Someone has to be the carry-on bag Nazi after all.) Please remember that any US flag carrier does not permit 'civilian' jumpseaters like the European carriers do. If all else fails, a big box of sweets for the crew should grease the wheels!!
