Lost passports raise safety fears
May 27th 2003, 5:54 am
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Re: Lost passports raise safety fears
Earl Evleth writes:
> My wife did just get her US passport renewed. She
> knew from news reports that it would take a while
> but refused the offer to have it mailed to her, she
> picked it up personally. It takes about two weeks.
I had mine renewed before they started getting "secure" passports from a
private contractor in the U.S. I had the new one in two hours. I guess
those days are gone.
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> My wife did just get her US passport renewed. She
> knew from news reports that it would take a while
> but refused the offer to have it mailed to her, she
> picked it up personally. It takes about two weeks.
I had mine renewed before they started getting "secure" passports from a
private contractor in the U.S. I had the new one in two hours. I guess
those days are gone.
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May 27th 2003, 5:55 am
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Re: Lost passports raise safety fears
Miguel Cruz writes:
> One would expect that things like this would
> go by pouch, accompanied by a diplomatic courier.
One would, but if they send them around by regular first-class mail,
clearly they don't care enough about security to do it that way.
The only consolation is that any loss of the new passport is a problem
for the government, not you.
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> One would expect that things like this would
> go by pouch, accompanied by a diplomatic courier.
One would, but if they send them around by regular first-class mail,
clearly they don't care enough about security to do it that way.
The only consolation is that any loss of the new passport is a problem
for the government, not you.
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May 27th 2003, 8:34 am
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Re: Lost passports raise safety fears
On Tue, 27 May 2003 09:02:07 +0200, Earl Evleth
wrote:
>On 26/05/03 8:26 pm, in article [email protected],
>"Pete" wrote:
>> Is it any wonder they are getting lost when the Passport agency just
>> post passports back to you by first class post? You'd think that in
>> this day and age something as valuable as a passport would be sent
>> back by Special Delivery, even if they added the cost to the cost of
>> the passport, it works out at less than 50p a year over 10 years!
>Curiously, we have been sending endorsed checks through the mails
>from France to the USA for 30 years without even one being "lost".
>If one writes on the check "for deposit only" in a particular
>account there is no danger of its being misused.
>We also have some small cash payments sent to us from England
>which also have never been lost. The mail system is surprisingly
>sure.
>Using special delivery is a sure sign that the content have value!
>We never use this method except for legal proof of reception of
>same. But never with checks or cash!
Special Delivery in the UK is the same as registered post in other
countries, it's just that the UK changed the name from registered
post.
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wrote:
>On 26/05/03 8:26 pm, in article [email protected],
>"Pete" wrote:
>> Is it any wonder they are getting lost when the Passport agency just
>> post passports back to you by first class post? You'd think that in
>> this day and age something as valuable as a passport would be sent
>> back by Special Delivery, even if they added the cost to the cost of
>> the passport, it works out at less than 50p a year over 10 years!
>Curiously, we have been sending endorsed checks through the mails
>from France to the USA for 30 years without even one being "lost".
>If one writes on the check "for deposit only" in a particular
>account there is no danger of its being misused.
>We also have some small cash payments sent to us from England
>which also have never been lost. The mail system is surprisingly
>sure.
>Using special delivery is a sure sign that the content have value!
>We never use this method except for legal proof of reception of
>same. But never with checks or cash!
Special Delivery in the UK is the same as registered post in other
countries, it's just that the UK changed the name from registered
post.
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