AUSTRALIAN LETTER - I think the sender might have been upset or a bit cross !
This is an actual letter sent to the DFAT (Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade) Immigration Minister. The Government tried desperately to censure the author, but got nowhere because every legal person who read it couldn’t stop laughing !

Dear Mr Minister,

I'm in the process of renewing my passport, and still cannot believe this.

How is it that K-Mart has my address and telephone number, and knows that I bought a television set and golf clubs and condoms from them back in 1997, and yet the Federal Government is still asking me where I was born
and on what date ?

For Christ sakes, do you guys do this by hand ?

My birth date you have in my Medicare information, and it is on all the income tax forms I've filed for the past 40 years.

It is also on my driver's licence, on the last eight passports I've ever had, on all those stupid customs declaration forms I've had to fill out before being allowed off planes
over the past 30 years.

It's also on all those insufferable census forms that I've filled out every 5 years since 1966.

Also... would somebody please take note, once and for all, that my mother's name is Audrey, my father's name is Jack, and I'd be absolutely bloody astounded if that ever
changed between now and when I drop dead !!!

SHIT! What do you people do with all this information we keep having to provide?

I apologise , Mr. Minister. But I'm really pissed off this morning.

Between you and me, I've had enough of all this bullshit!

You send the application to my house, then you ask me for my bloody address!

What the hell is going on with your mob? Have you got a gang of mindless Neanderthal arseholes working there!

And another thing, look at my damn picture. Do I look like Bin Laden? I can't even grow a beard for God's sakes. I just want to go to New Zealand and see my new granddaughter. (Yes, my son interbred with a Kiwi girl). And would someone please tell me, why would you give a shit whether or not I plan on visiting a farm in the next 15 days? In the unlikely event I ever got the urge to do something weird to a sheep or a horse, believe you me, I'd sure as hell not want to tell anyone!

Well, I have to go now, 'cause I have to go to the other side of Sydney , and get another bloody copy of my birth certificate - and to part with another $80 for the privilege of accessing MY OWN INFORMATION!

Would it be so complicated to have all the services in the same spot, to assist in the issuance of a new passport on the same day?

Nooooo…that'd be too bloody easy and makes far too much sense.

You would much prefer to have us running all over the bloody place like chickens with our heads cut off, and then having to find some 'high-society' wanker to confirm that it's really me in the goddamn photo! You know the photo... the one where we're not allowed to smile?...you bloody morons.

Signed - An Irate Australian Citizen..

P.S. Remember what I said above about the picture, and getting someone in 'high-society' to confirm that it's me?
Well, my family has been in this country since before 1820! In 1856, one of my forefathers took up arms with Peter Lalor. (You do remember the Eureka Stockade!)

I have also served in both the CMF and regular Army for something over 30 years (I went to Vietnam in 1967), and still have high security clearances. I'm also a personal friend of the president of the RSL...Lt General Peter Cosgrove sends me a Christmas card each year.

However, your rules require that I have to get someone "important" to verify who I am; you know...someone like my doctor - WHO WAS BORN AND RAISED IN BLOODY PAKISTAN!...a country where they either assassinate or hang their ex-Prime Ministers - and are suspended from
the Commonwealth and United Nations for not having the "right sort of government"..

You are all pen-pushing paper-shuffling bloody idiots!

My passport expired several years ago. I took it to the office to get a new one, and they asked for all the information again. They had it all in the computer, and were still idiotic enough to ask me if my name, date and place of birth were still the same, as was my gender and race and my parents names.

Morons...

I've yet to understand why you go to get your passport renewed and they give you a new passport number. What's the matter with the old number? They haven't given me a new social security number in a hundred years. What's the difference?

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still the same, as was my gender and race and my parents names

In this day and age the above census items must be confirmed, you know like Caitlyn Jenner!

The passport can not be faked, it must completely (including number) be made in the conditions of high-tech printing, not the printer at the police station. Therefore, the number identifies essentially a paper and not a real person. And assign a constant numder of living person for life is not easy, because it is difficult to establish the inextricable link between the number and the living organism. The previous attempt failed, as we know:

"And he causeth all, the small and the great, and the rich and the poor, and the free and the bond, that there be given them a mark on their right hand, or upon their forehead; 13:17and that no man should be able to buy or to sell, save he that hath the mark, even the name of the beast or the number of his name" (Apocalypse 13:16)

Vashper,

Never interrupt with facts when someone is enjoying a good gripe.

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Never interrupt with facts when someone is enjoying a good gripe.

"gripe"? Which meaning?

gripe –
a complaint, especially a trivial one.
"his biggest gripe is that he has lost his sense of privacy"
synonims: complaint, grumble, grouse, grievance, objection, cavil, quibble, niggle, moan, beef, kvetch, whinge
gastric or intestinal pain; colic.
"Plenty of time for late night blogging while coping with teething, chronic gripe and insomnia from 4am feeds."

As to Governmental ineptitude; years ago when I had my FFL,I get a pkg. from ATF with my 4473 forms + a cover sheet headed under the "paperwork reduction act".It said if you did not receive this pkg. then send your results to us in triplicate that you did not get this pkg.Really,I could'nt make this up.