Comments on: Baggage Wrapping: Brilliant or Stupid?

By: Isabella

Isabella — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 16:30:29 +0000

The airport personal do not care for your suitcases and will handle it in a very destructive way. Every single time I had to fly out from JFK I needed to buy a new set for my next trip. The wrapping not only protect your bag for future uses but also helps to protect your luggage from thieves. They always look for easier targets once they need to act fast and if you are one of the ‘lucky’ chosen by customs to get inspected they can just cut it out.

By: Asad

Asad — Sat, 10 Sep 2011 17:44:24 +0000

Baggage wrapping is a very good solution for minor wear and tear. It also minimizes the pilferage of vaulable significantly.
I worked in different airports for baggage services. I have seen bags in openned conditions due poor handling, weather, heat, pilferage, human errors and some times due over packing of stuff in the bag.
Bags when we check-in at the airport are sorted, segregated and loaded in containers, later on arrival again these bags are taken to sorting area, offloaded and lot of manual labour is involved in it.
Wrapping your bag not only saves ur bag in getting damaged or pilfered but also it avoids interchange ( switch ) of bags with other customer’s bag, which is also a vital issue of delay or loss of baggage.

By: mark

mark — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 12:16:53 +0000

protection against thieves, damage, and smuggled drugs inserted in luggages.

By: Elvira

Elvira — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 14:40:34 +0000

I’ve been working for a wrapping service company for over 5 years now. I’ve heard so many different stories about why people wan’t to get their baggage wrapped it would take days to write them down, and it only shows how many different reasons there is to wrap your bag. If you feel that $5-$12 is too much thats up to you. Why complain on a service that came up on passenger demands. I’m not writing this to protect the business but the sum is not that high if you consider how many things that has to be payed not to mention our backs thats not even replaceable.

I know if i had a $800 white suitcase like the customer i had last week, i know for sure i’d pay $5-$12.

By: Taba

Taba — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 15:20:18 +0000

I used a similar service as this to fly to Sydney to London for my suitcase.

Reason? I stuffed so much stuff in my small suitcase I was worried it wouldn’t hold itself together. Best option ever.

By: Patricia

Patricia — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 16:57:45 +0000

Personally I think it’s a brilliant idea. yes, you could wrap your own bags at home in clingwrap before you leave, which I never remember to do. To pilfer, one would simply steal the whole suitcase, so this is not the solution for security. However, it gives me peace of mind when my bags weigh about 30kgs that they won’t burst out all over the place should a zip fail. I’ve used it on numerous occasions and in another way it also shows whether or not your luggage has, in fact, been tampered with – if it arrives still nicely wrapped, you know your contents are still there! It’s a personal choice – don’t diss it just cos you didn’t think of it first. Someone is making good money out of plastic wrapping. Wish I’d thought of it.

By: indian

indian — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 17:54:31 +0000

i am going to get my luggage wrapped at jfk as the way my luggage was mishandled during my travel from delhi to jfk (i flew directly) , i wouldnt want to risk spoiling my newly bought hard case luggage . my aim is to protect it from physical damage.

By: RASHAM SINGH

RASHAM SINGH — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 08:14:24 +0000

ON 28 AUGUST 2010 WHEN I WAS GOING TO VIENA BY AUSTRIAN AIRLINES I HAVE GET WRAPRING MY BAGGAGE FROM MR.JATINDER YADAV ON NEW DELHI AIR PORT AT 09:09 PM WIDE RECEIPT NO. DEL-C-2-40R-49.BUT WHEN I HAVE SEE MY BAGGAGE BY REACHING ITALY MY BAGGAGE WAS FOUND BADLY DAMAGE AND I HAVE PHOGRAPHS FOR THIS FOR PROOF.PLEASE GIVE ME CLAIME FOR THIS.MY COTACT NO. IN INDIA-[redacted / commenter contacted] AND IN ITALY-[redacted].

By: Rafael Osorno

Rafael Osorno — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 20:21:22 +0000

I’ve recently had an incident with this service, specifically with SecureWrap. Long story short, we payed for the service, but recieved the bags 48 hrs later without the plastic, and several of the items, such as clothes, cables, usb sticks, perfumes, small gifts, sweaters, a suit and even a pair of shoes, were stolen on the way. When we contact this crappy company, they told me that the plastic is only to “reduce the posibility..”, assuming no responsability or insurance service (worldwide, as the website states) for the customer. In other words, it’s a waste of your money!!! They operate on the dark side of the law (not TSA recognized) they sell you a “protection” service for $10/$15 usd, but they wont accept ANY claim at all. If plastic arrives opened or absent at all its exactly the same…. I would never waste a buck on these thiefs…

By: Rick

Rick — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 02:20:44 +0000

It’s a great idea and who talk bad about I believe is jelous or may be nevar trip.
Is a multy bilion business and I apologize for US but the clevar italian guy opened this business now have a turnover of more than 40 MILION EURO per year !!! Now call himm stupid if you can, or call his idea dam, if you do I believe you are only jelous…
I use this wrapping from 6 years and I fly about 100 times per year and believe me also in short routes is a best since the wrap:
- protect your luggage from scratch and zip broken
- keep far bad guys
- the price of 9 euro or 10 US$ is not too much if compared with the unconvenient to trip with a bronken luggage or arrived at destination with many of your cloths lost
- no one will think to place inside the luggage something illegal