Sacks or sacks is the plural ( more than one ) of "sack", meaning a kind of bag, usually made of cloth--
"Kits, cats, sacks, wives, how many were going to Saint Ives?"
There are still three sacks of potatoes in the cellar.
Sacks may also be the third person singular of the verb ( action word ) "sack", meaning to pillage or plunder--
We should leave, before the invading army sacks the city.
Sax or sax ( rhymes with sacks ) is a short form of "saxophone", meaning the musical instrument--
He played tenor sax in a small dance band.
He doesn't want to check his sax; he wants to take it on the plane with him.
Now that you know that, you can say--
"His sax is in the baggage compartment, on top of the sacks of mail."
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