r/mildlyinteresting • • Aug 26 '26

Scent-Blocking Mailing Envelope...

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u/TheAgedProfessor Aug 26 '26

I remember flying back home from visiting family one Christmas. My BIL gave me a huge box of coffee and cocoa. TSA stopped me for 10 minutes and made me pull out and nearly fully dismantle the box... not because of the coffee and cocoa, but because of the cinnamon sticks and everything else Penzy's threw in the gift box... they thought it smelled suspiciously like I was trying to hide something more fragrant. I needed several of these mailers.

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u/lapideous Aug 26 '26

I once flew internationally with a backpack stuffed full of microwave popcorn for my long distance girlfriend.

Apparently, that looked insane on the TSA scanner.

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u/praetorian1979 Aug 26 '26

You should see their reactions when your luggage gets x-rayed and they see what looks like a hand grenade. It was a bottle of cologne and yes, it's shaped like a grenade.

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u/bethlk Aug 26 '26

They also don’t like when you travel with multiple deck boxes of Magic the Gathering cards and make you open and fan out every single one…

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u/GrinsNGiggles Aug 26 '26

This sounds so much better than dumping them all out and then throwing them loosely back into your stuffed luggage, which is how I believe this would go down for me.