Prohibited scissors at Calgary Customs.
Sep 29th, 2008, 11:27 AM
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Prohibited scissors at Calgary Customs.
We are “carry-on” luggage travelers and pack
two pair of small 3-inch sewing scissors with cutting edge blade of one half inch. . US customs permits us to carry them with us and we did not think anything about it when we returned. At Calgary airport customs we were told that they were prohibited items. We had two options---leave them or go back and mail them to ourselves. We did the latter. The airport has a convenient UPS deposit box just before the security screening. You fill out the paperwork, include a credit card number (yipes---a real concern that someone has access to that information), your address, and the cost was $17. They arrived within 10 days.
Sep 29th, 2008, 02:41 PM
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Airport security at Calgary always seems particularly strict (or bureaucratic) in my experience. DW's folding knitting scissors were confiscated this past Friday, despite having been passed many times at other airports in Canada and abroad.
I was searched by a woman whose English was barely understandable and who seemed to have been trained by the KGB and its ilk. She even inspected the contents of my wallet.
I was searched by a woman whose English was barely understandable and who seemed to have been trained by the KGB and its ilk. She even inspected the contents of my wallet.
Sep 29th, 2008, 04:48 PM
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I wouldn't agree that security in Calgary has always been tight. Several years ago, security actually found a little folding knife in my husband's carryon - they let him go right through! Obviously before 9/11 ....
