cavortingcheetah:
In the US these days, I'm afraid that by the time you get through immigration, which is no fault of the officials there, your bags will have long ago come up on the carousel and will have been taken off and dumped somewhere.
Hmm. At SEA, the customs people like to watch the crowds around the baggage carousel. They walk around with the sniffer dogs and keep an eye out for anyone who might think twice about picking their bag up and leaving without it. As a result, there seems to be an extra effort to have the bags available when the PAX are there to pick them up.