Airline Consistency

My experience is at the other end where they fleece you in customs. We come for months at a time and always bring a couple of suitcases. Shoes and clothes can get musty or mildewed over the summer at our condo and those are the same clothes that can be worn in the summer up north. Next time, I'm going to request that the person at check-in not put the red priority insert on the baggage tag. These bags do not come on to the carousel in ZIH first, but they may be a tipoff for customs to provide extra scrutiny. We've gotten the green light and then they still hit us up for a couple hundred bucks. (And no, my wife's clothing and my golf clubs are not for resale, but it's hard to say the value is less than $1,000 per person.) Stopping in Mexico City, so the flight to ZIH is domestic, used to be a good option for us when Interjet was in business, but now the connections are poor.