Priceless!!! I so needed it as I had to call the post office this morning to be transfered 4 times to have someone tell me they couldn't verify if I had mail there unless I came down and showed them ID, even though they KNOW it's me. ________________________________ From: Helen Knott <hiknott2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: women_of_phoenix@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Mon, October 18, 2010 11:41:12 AM Subject: [women_of_phoenix] Fwd: ACTUAL PASSPORT APPLICATION LETTER-----HILARIOUS! This is So TRUE!! > WARNING - Containsa fair bit of foul language...if you can take it then read >on, sympathise and have a laugh > >AN ACTUAL PASSPORT LETTER SENT: how true this is from a UK paper > > >Dear Sirs >I'm in the process of renewing my passport, and still cannot believe this. How >is it that Sky Television has my address and telephone number and knows that I >bought a bleeding satellite dish from them back in 1977, and yet, the >Government >is still asking me where I was bloody born and on what date? For goodness >sake, >do you guys do this by hand? My birth date you have on my pension book, and it >is on all the income tax forms I've filed for the past 30 years. It is on my >National Health card, my driving license, my car insurance, AND on the last >eight damn passports I've had, on all those stupid customs declaration forms >I've had to fill out before being allowed off the plane over the last 30 >years, >and all those insufferable census forms. > Would some body please take note, once and for all, that my mother's name >is >Mary Anne, my father's name is Robert and I'd be abso-fucking-lutely astounded >if that ever changed between now and when I die!!!!!! > I apologise, I'm really pissed off this morning. Between you and me, I've >had enough of this bullshit! You send the application to my house, then you >ask >me for my fucking address !!!! What is going on? Do you have a gang of >Neanderthal arseholes working there? Look at my damn picture. Do I look like >Bin >Laden? I don't want to dig up Yasser Arafat, for shit sakes. I just want to >go >and park my arse on some sandy beach somewhere. And would someone please tell >me, why would you give a shit whether I plan on visiting a farm in the next 15 >days? If I ever got the urge to do something weird to a chicken or a goat, >believe you me, you'd be the last fucking people I'd want to tell! > Well, I have to go now, because I have to go to the other end of the poxy >city to get another fucking copy of my birth certificate, to the tune of £30. >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?? Nooooooooooooo, that'd be too >damn easy and maybe makes sense. You'd rather have us running all over the >fucking place like chickens with our heads cut off, then have to find some >arsehole to confirm that it's really me on the damn picture - you know, the >one >where we're not allowed to smile?! (bureaucratic fucking morons) Hey, do you >know why we couldn't smile if we wanted to? Because we're totally pissed >off! > >Signed An Irate Citizen. > P.S. Remember what I said above about the picture and getting someone to >confirm that it's me? Well, my family has been in this country since 1776 >........ I have served in the military for something over 30 years and have >had >full security clearances over 25 of those years enabling me to undertake >highly >secretive missions all over the world. ......... However, I have to get >someone >'important' to verify who I am - you know, someone like my doctor WHO WAS >BORN >AND RAISED IN FUCKING PAKISTAN >Sincerely, >from You Sure The Hell Should Know