Padlocks were once the most secure fastening devices known
for securing luggage. Modern times and the increased skills of the
‘thief’ have rendered locks and keys obsolete as a means of preventing
unauthorised access to the contents of your luggage. The real
disadvantage of lock security is its fallibility. A
lock on your luggage can be opened and relocked leaving no sign of
entry or where the security breach has occurred.
The alternative – tamper evident security – is a keyless
system which allows you to close your luggage and to know at
any time, between home and airport and its final destination,
if it has been opened. Tamper evident security results in peace of
mind.
Tamper-evident security has been around for 2000 years.
Written scrolls, sent by horsemen, were tamper-evident secured with an
embossed wax seal. In 2005 every shipping container is shipped to its destination with
a coded, ‘one time use’ bolt seal which has to be removed with bolt
cutters from the container before it is opened.
Similar examples abound of the use of tamper-evident security to
protect the integrity of product and/or the person and yet it has
never been widely introduced as a means of tamper-evident securing
luggage - until now.
Tebco Luggage Seal uses a revolutionary plastic security
seal which unlike a lock, leaves a visual record each time your
luggage is opened and closed. Any unauthorised tampering will
result in a broken seal. If your luggage is found in that condition or
with a different number on the seal you will know immediately that the
security of your luggage has been breached.
Tamper evident luggage is also available and with no
external compartments they provide improved protection. The
security chamber on the Tebco Sealed Luggage has been
designed to conceal the slider on your zip (the mechanism that
meshes and unmeshes the zip). An individually numbered plastic seal
then seals the chamber, which makes it extremely difficult
to tamper with the contents of your luggage.
Luggage is a growing target for those desperate to find anything of
value that can be sold &/or an unsealed piece of luggage into which
they can place dangerous, illegal imports. When travelling we are
forced to place our trust in ‘the system’; however it does not prevent
one from having doubts.
When you arrive at the airline check-in desk the airline staff ask
their standard questions:
- Did you pack your own bag?
- Has anyone asked you to carry anything for them?
- Has the luggage been out of your sight?
You give the standard yes/no answers to all their questions and
then you begin to think....should I
have answered these questions differently??
Tamper-evident security on bags can be used in the hotel room,
on a bus, train, within a tour group, in fact, anywhere and at any
time one’s luggage is out of sight…out of one’s hands.
To learn more about TEBco luggage and luggage seal
click here
This article was provided by Bruce Bond of Bagmasters Australia
one of the world’s leading security and specialty bag manufacturers.
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