EDI: One last facilitation thing

When collecting my baggage in Edinburgh, our flight from LHR had its bags being delivered to carousel 5. However, there was also a sign stating that if your journey started outside the EU that those bags would be delivered to carousel 6. Carousel 6 is adjacent to 5, but is separated by a sort of half-wall. Carousel 6 is, I guess, in the HM Customs area. There were signs all over, indicating all the things that you can't bring into the EU. But no people. And no paperwork. It seems that everything is on the honour system (for inbound connectors at least... might be different for inbound international flights). There is a red phone for making declarations, but, not surprisingly, I didn't notice anyone using it.

So quite a process from beginning to end, with the immigration/passport control, biometric screening (twice), and finally customs at the final destination.

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