{"id":272666,"date":"2026-08-26T16:56:35","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T16:56:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/272666\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T16:56:35","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T16:56:35","slug":"lvia-unveils-service-to-return-tsa-prohibited-items","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/272666\/","title":{"rendered":"LVIA unveils service to return TSA-prohibited items"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Passengers who are going through security at Lehigh Valley International Airport have a new option if they realize they are carrying an item prohibited by the Transportation Security Administration.<\/p>\n<p>Instead of having it confiscated, passengers can use a new service known as Flippit. It\u2019s an airport-authorized service that allows travelers to securely ship TSA-prohibited items back to their home or to another address.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.about.flippit.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">According to its website<\/a>, Flippit will deliver it anywhere in the U.S. for a flat fee \u2014 packed, insured and tracked \u2014 in seven to 10 business days. Payment is made by scanning a QR code on a receipt that is taken from the envelope.<\/p>\n<p>LVIA\u2019s Flippit collection box is on the second level of the Main Terminal before the TSA checkpoint.<\/p>\n<p>The new service comes as the airport reported 111,412 passengers passing through LVIA last month, the highest monthly traffic level on record and an 8.55% increase from July 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Passengers who are going through security at Lehigh Valley International Airport have a new option if they realize&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":272667,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,2121,433,157,3767,182,139,28,432,2155],"class_list":["post-272666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-hanover-township","tag-lehigh-county","tag-lehigh-valley","tag-lehigh-valley-international-airport","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-top-stories-tmc","tag-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=272666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272666\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/272667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}