This is still happening. We visited New York with British Airways from the UK. On returning we visited the dyut free at JFK and purchased $55 of vodka. We obviously had to show our flight tickets/boarding card. We paid and our goods were delivered to the aeroplane boarding jetty. When there we saw that they were in bags with the receipts stapled to the outside. To us everything looked fine. Arrived at Heathrow and goods were confiscated on our flight up to Edinburgh. The guy at airport security, Lee, said that this happens all the time, yet he or his boss had never thought to actually contact JFK and let them know. Given that we had never actually went out of the airport and were simply transferring within 20 minutes of arriving at Heathrow I simply feel we have been let down, not just by JFK, but by Heathrow. To simply say that this happens all the time and yet not to bother about doing anything is just ridiculous.
This is still happening. We