Tell Tag - Why use Tell Tag?

There is no better luggage tamper detection system than Tell-Tag

Tell-Tag provides a detection system that will alert you to luggage tampering, giving you the opportunity to notify the airline or authorities before exiting through Customs.

In a situation where your bag's zipper has been forced open (breached), Tell-Tag will detect this condition by preventing the padlocked zip sliders from being used to regenerate the zip chain for criminal cover-up purposes.

Tell-Tag allows you to confidently seal your luggage before you hand it over to someone else's care. If someone interferes with your luggage, Tell-Tag will let you know. As a Tell-Tag cannot be removed without ‘voiding’ the seal and/or destroying the zip stop, a quick check of the tag will alert you to any tampering.

Is Tell-Tag easy to fit?

Simply attach the Tell-Tag zip stop and seal to your bag’s zip and sliders, using our easy, step-by-step instructions.

How will I know if luggage tampering has occurred?

When you retrieve your luggage at the end of your journey, a quick visual check of your Tell-Tags will advise you of any luggage tampering. The system is extremely simple and effective.

Claiming Your Luggage

When you claim your luggage at the end of your journey, it is important that you check the integrity of the Tell-Tags that you have fitted to your bags. Check your luggage and Tell-Tags carefully:

• Ensure that it is your signature on the detection seal, and not an attempted forgery.
• Ensure the zip chain on each item of luggage is still intact, and hasn’t been breached or broken in any way.
• Ensure the detection seal hasn’t been voided (see example opposite).
• Ensure the detection seal hasn’t been fractured or damaged in any way.
• Ensure that the zip stop hasn’t been broken, and that the zip stop’s tail is still intact.
• Ensure that the zip stop has not been removed, or pulled out from between the two zip sliders.
• Ensure that you inspect any empty, unprotected external zippered pockets of your luggage. They should continue to remain empty.

Alert your airline or Customs Official immediately, if you suspect that the integrity of your luggage has been compromised. Explain that you suspect luggage tampering, and that a reliable detection device fitted to your luggage now indicates a tamper condition. Communicate your concerns clearly and confidently, and inform the Official that you are not happy to proceed through Customs until your luggage has been inspected by them.

Alternatively, if convenient, you may wish to examine the contents of your luggage yourself. In any event, you should not accompany your luggage through Customs (or any other point of entry) without checking the contents of your luggage first. Be sure to declare any items that have been added to your luggage.

There is no comparison!

No other luggage tag can fully immobilise the zips of your luggage. Tell-Tag will let you know when your luggage has been used without your consent. When you use Tell-Tag, the unauthorised use of your luggage cannot be covered up.

No matter what we do, we will never be able to reliably secure our luggage. It's just not feasible. Anybody with a knife or a screwdriver can force open even the best quality suitcase. In short, if someone wants to get into our luggage badly enough they will. It is therefore more important to detect luggage tempering than to try to prevent it. Standard zips and padlocks can be easily opened and re-sealed without your knowledge, and a product without a zip stop (such as a plastic numbered 'security' tag with a ty-wrap method of attachment) will not necessarily alert you to tampering.

A criminal using a zip ‘breach and reseal’ technique can effectively get around the ‘security’ provided by a conventionally protected zip chain. This will allow the undetectable use of your luggage for ‘muling’ operations, where your luggage is used by other people for the shipmet of drugs and other types of contraband. This is potentially very dangerous for the owner of the luggage, as she/he will be held responsible by the authorities for these items.

Tell-Tag provides a cheap, simple and effective answer.