Last week when I went thru STT all the lines were long. We had already checked in and gotten the checked luggage tagged when we realized a porter was a better idea.

The porter took all the bags for our group of 4. He escorted us PAST the customs line and had us wait for an open customs agent. Then he took the bags past customs and waited for us to check-in with the agent. Then he took us directly to security and he took all the bags to the front of the line to drop off checked bags.

All we waited for was the security line. Had we started with him right away, we would have skipped the Delta check-in line (30 minutes), the customs line (20 minutes) and the line to drop checked bags after customs (10 minutes). We gave him $5/bag.