Getting A Passport................

[Carolly]

Dear Minister,

I'm in the process of renewing my passport but I am a total loss to

understand or believe the hoops I am being asked to jump through.

How is it that Bert Smith of T.V. Rentals Basingstoke has my address and

telephone number and knows that I bought a satellite dish from them back

in 1994, and yet, the Government is still asking me where I was born and

on what date?

How come that nice chappy who comes round every

Thursday night with his DVD rentals van can tell me every film or video

I have had out since he started his business up eleven years ago, yet

you still want me to remind you of my last three jobs, one of which was

working for the government

How come the T.V. detector van can tell if my T.V. is on, what channel

I am watching and whether I have paid my licence or not, and yet if I win

the government run lottery they have no idea I have won or where I am

and will keep the bloody money to themselves if I fail to claim in good time

Do you people do this by hand?

You have my birth date on numerous files you hold on me, including the one

with all the income tax forms I've filed for the past 30-odd years. It's

on my health insurance card, my driver's licence, on the last four

passports I've had, on all those stupid customs declaration forms I've

had to fill out before being allowed off the planes and boats over the

last 30 years, and all those insufferable census forms that are done

every ten years and the electoral registration forms I have to complete,

by law, every time our lords and masters are up for re-election.

Would somebody please take note, once and for all, I was born in

Maidenhead on the 21st January 1957, my mother's name is Mary, her

maiden name was Reynolds, and you know I dont know my dads name and Id be

absolutely astounded if that ever changed between now and the day I die!

I apologize Minister. I'm obviously not myself this morning. But between

you and me, I have simply had enough! You mail the application to my

house, then you ask me for my address. What is going on? Do you have a

gang of Neanderthals working there? Look at my damn picture. Do I look

look THAT dangerous? I don't want to activate the Fifth Reich for God's sake!

I just want to go and park my weary backside on a sunny, sandy beach for

a couple of week's well-earned rest away from all this crap.

Well, I have to go now, because I have to go to back to Salisbury and get

another copy of my birth certificate because you lost the last one. AND

to the tune of a nice few quid. What a racket THAT is!! Would it be so

complicated to have all the services in the same spot to assist in the

issuance of a new passport the same day? But nooooo, that'd be too damn

easy and maybe make sense. You'd rather have us running all over the

place like chickens with our heads cut off, then find somebody to

confirm that it's really me on the goddamn picture - you know... the one

where we're not allowed to smile in in case we look as if we are

enjoying the process!

Hey, you know why we can't smile? 'Cause we're totally peed off!:rolleyes::p

[Uncle Kram]

Yeah, passport applications are a real ball-ache

[CARLA]

I'm renewing mine as well and I did the whole thing online in about 5 minutes. Now I just go the the Post Office have my pictures taken put it in an envelope and pay the $100 done.

[Carolly]

CARLA;780288 wrote: I'm renewing mine as well and I did the whole thing online in about 5 minutes. Now I just go the the Post Office have my pictures taken put it in an envelope and pay the $100 done. Clever Girl;)

[Carolly]

Uncle Kram;780280 wrote: Yeah, passport applications are a real ball-ache
Guess we should do it all online like our friend;)