Just curious here folks but where does the mass amount of perfume, alcohol, etc go when it is seized by customs at the airport ?
2006-11-13 06:05:23 · 13 answers · asked by Mark T 1 in Travel ➔ Travel (General) ➔ Other - Destinations
every one shares them out at the end of the week along with the tips
2006-11-13 06:09:13 · answer #1 · answered by sundance 1 · 1⤊ 2⤋
When some ideas were confiscated from me recently, I was given the option of either mailing the items to my home (the airport had post office kiosks) or letting them be discarded. I chose to let them throw the items away. The searcher threw the items into a large trash bin immediately, while I was watching. Afterward I wondered if they go through the bin to take what they want. In my case, I didn't care because it was only $10 worth of lipstick/perfume.
2006-11-13 06:15:15 · answer #2 · answered by Memphis qt 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
At border crossings I have been given caught with many meat products and different foodstuff products which i could no longer carry lower back from Mexico even nonetheless i offered each thing interior the U.S. only before going into Mexico. i'd have rotated and found a needy kinfolk to furnish the foodstuff to, however the border human beings certain me that it would all take transport of to needy Mexican persons. At airports maximum edibles are trashed. different hardware and kin products are given to charities. i replaced right into slightly miffed whilst they confiscated my scissors at a bus depot - my fault, i did no longer be attentive to that they had began that kind of close protection for shuttle on a bus. it somewhat is seen to be un-patriotic to whinge and that i did no longer desire to decelerate the protection line. on the different hand, they grabbed my scissors, yet I a technique or the different controlled to stroll during the x-ray gadget and steel detectors with a Swiss military Knife in my pocket (i'd thoroughly forgotten approximately it). So, the protection exams are nonetheless bogus and ineffective, and that's a issue.
2016-12-10 08:24:15 · answer #3 · answered by girardot 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It depends on what it is. Ito goes to hospitals for people who don't have anything, to homeless and needy people or other kind of charity.
What can not be used for this is supposed to be thrown away. But who knows how much stays in the pocket of people working in the airports.
I guess what really happens with all confiscated good depends also very much in what kind of country it gets confiscated.
2006-11-13 06:20:29 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The warning at Charles de Gaulle airport states "that any confiscated goods will be systematically destroyed" spoilsports
2006-11-13 06:23:33 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
In Jordan, the customs people leave happily back home with extra good. No good are actually "destroyed" or thrown in the garbage. If you give some $$$, they may give it back to you. But the case differs from one country to another.
2006-11-13 06:16:59 · answer #6 · answered by luka85 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Cigarettes I believe get incinerated and alcohol poured out.
Other things I think are sold off and the money raised is sent to chartiy.
2006-11-13 06:14:04 · answer #7 · answered by dunfie 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They give em to me-my house is full to the brim with all of YOUR confiscated stuff. Thanks! I really appreciate not having to by perfume alcohol, etc (your words, not mine).
2006-11-13 06:13:43 · answer #8 · answered by Leni 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Destroyed. Typically, burnt or poured down the sink.
2006-11-13 06:51:59 · answer #9 · answered by Penfold 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
at christmas it gets divided up between airport staff for them to give on as presents.
Last christmas my aunty got me 72 nail clippers, 400 B&H and a kilo of uncut columbian cocaine.
2006-11-13 06:14:08 · answer #10 · answered by Icarus 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋