I had a knife found in my pocket at the San Diego airport a couple of years ago. They had one of these mailing services to take care of "confiscated" items, so I used it. As I remember, it cost over $10 for the service, which was not very different from the cost of the knife. Since then, I have found that I can buy the small Swiss Army pen knives on *bay in lots of 5 for about $2 each. I bought a bunch of them and sprinkled them among my fishing vests and bags. If I lose one at an airport now, I just don't worry about it. I think these *ebay sellers get their knives from the TSA, so this is a good way of recycling them.

Ted