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  • floraliesfloralies Posts: 2,718
    Having paid out a huge amount to HM passport Office to have my new passport sent from the Uk to France by DHL express, DHL express have just turned up with my old passport, why could they not have returned them together and saved me some money.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Security?
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • KT53KT53 Posts: 9,016
    Obelixx said:
    Too much to hope they could be converted to decent living quarters for people in need of homes - once they've been checked for dodgy cladding and other seedy building practices.

    The rules around converting office space to accommodation have been relaxed so much that any dodgy developer can pretty do what they want and get away with it now.
  • B3 said:
    Security?
    Yes, MIL used to work for the Passport Office ... she did explain the risks and reason why they're not sent together but I cant quite remember the ins and outs of it.  

    Although to be honest I don't see why we need our old ones ... apparently some folk like to look back and see the stamps and visas in them, but that's just a personal thing ... I think having even old ones floating around would be a s ecurity risk.  

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Forgot to oil the tin. Bread was glued to all 5 sides😠.
    The remains are going up the garden for whatever fancies eating it😡
    That's the 3rd inedible loaf in two days😠 didn't fancy the sugar mites in the other two😠
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • floraliesfloralies Posts: 2,718
    I'm sure there is a reason why but not for us to know. The old passport has a corner cut off so it can't be used anyway even if it is still in date. No wonder the shipping costs are extortionate.    
  • KT53KT53 Posts: 9,016
    We used to keep our old passports because of the stamps in them.  As virtually all our travel over the past 15 years has been within the EU there have been very few stamps.  Just Turkey, so not worth hanging on to.  From January they may be worth considering again.
  • josusa47josusa47 Posts: 3,530
    Sometimes passports have visas in them that remain valid after the passport itself has expired.  For instance, my old passport contains an indefinite multiple entry visa for the USA.  If I ever go there again, I'll need to take both passports.
  • fidgetbonesfidgetbones Posts: 17,618
    I thought that. I have a multiple entry indefinite visa for USA in my old circa 1984 passport. However when we went last time to Florida, I was told all the old ones had been revoked and we had to get a new one. Something to do with Homeland security and 9/11.
  • Nanny BeachNanny Beach Posts: 8,719
    I am soooo angry if I don't vent on here, I shall burst a blood vessel!! You all know the saga, of us putting up new fence, which isn't our "side" or responsibility, it was beyond rotten, when it fell down in winds ineviably damaged our plants etc, the other day struggling to get fence panels from car roof, (I am 70 and 5 feet tall) said neighbour watched us, said "oh, new project", I so nearly said "no, same one" etc etc, managed to bight my tounge, I am very quiet,polite, wouldn't even say boo to a goose but am reaching my limit!!!I's, not even the cost, the intensive labour, (hubby spent several hours digging out from concrete each of  the rotten posts, before even could errect new) the lack of a polite thank you,the fact they sat happily in the garden while we did it, it's spending our b*****y time and money taking the old stuff to the tip.  I did get one "meaning to thank you" a couple of years back, saying THEY couldn't afford it, 5 holidays last year, even managed THREE this year.  Us 12 years ago, a lot of people said we shouldn't have bothered, but it was so rotten, we had brambles with 6 cinch diameter stems pushing through, we tried to cut back every couple of weeks, their positioning even meant we couldn't have the size Summer House we wanted, because they would have ruined the roof.  They were in the gutters of my potting shed, and really difficult to remove, they blocked the down pipes.  It was these that finnished the already rotting fence off.
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