eli5: Can anyone explain why all your checked baggage isn’t weighed collectively and instead weighed individually?

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I was recently traveling and decided to check two bags in. Together, they weighed under the limit collectively, but individually one was overweight. Wouldn’t the total weight be all that matter though?

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Each checked piece of luggage is tagged with a barcode and managed by the baggage handling system. They need to know how much it weighs for routing and storage purposes as it moves throughout the system.

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