Spent a bit of time around the world just recently, it gets worse, especially the US, where they stop just short of a colonoscopy before you are allowed near the gate.
Fair enough, but get this, when you get on the bird and having your first champagne for the flight you're sitting on top of as many cargo igloos as they can get on board. Are they checked with the same rigour? I dont think so, in fact before I left last time they were talking about legislation to require the same level of scrutiny of the freight as is required of the pax.
It seems that the whole thing stops at the signature on the parcel are there any dangerous goods in this parcel. Hello??