I don't lock my suitcase - I zip tie it - the zip ties act nicely as a tamper gate, keep the zippers from flying open at the Wrong Time, and tend to be nicely visible on the baggage carousel.

The TSA doesn't give me warm fuzzies either. Out of the three different services that I've had the dubious privledge of being hauled over and searched by, their attitude seemed to be centered around "I can do what I want to you, how I want, if I want", not "I'm a professional doing my job".

I'm not sure that I can properly articulate how frustrating the difference between the polite and efficient "Please step aside with your belongings", followed by a quick and unemotional review of self and belongings of the Japanese and Canadian workers - and the flustering and screaming to do contradictory things that the TSA seems to encourage.

Similarly, while I appreciate the availibility of multilingual employees, it's really wonderful if the employees in question speak the primary language of the country in question.

Hrm. I suspect that part of what I'm pointing out here is the difference between a career job, and porly paid hourly work...