7 comments by 1 or more people

1. Sue

   I had this problem when I missed a parcel recently. It wasn’t a long way to the depot but it was very complicated to find. The only directions I had were “off Feeder Road” and it turns out to be a very long road with lots of turnings off. I printed out directions before I left but forgot to print the map, I also forgot my A-Z. I eventually found it after over an hour (this was with help from a passenger in the car). I wished they’d just left it outside the door like the Royal Mail. It was only a rubber seal for the bottom of the shower door, I’m sure nobody would have wanted to steal it.

   15 Dec 2008, 07:12

2. Sue

   Though I have to admit, it did look more interesting than it actually was because it was in a very nice tubular long box.

   15 Dec 2008, 07:17

3. Starman

   How will the new proposed National ID Card be any different from say the current driving licence ? Most organisations that I have dealt with in recent years seem more than happy to accept my driving licence as official proof of ID, even Post Office and Parcel Delivery depots. If organisations insist on at least 2 seperate forms of ID in the future, surely this will also apply to a National ID card. Like all Official Documents, they too surely will be subject to forgeries which will be used by criminals to gain false credentials in gaining access to goods and services that are not rightly theirs.

   15 Dec 2008, 11:11

4. Rob McGonigle

   You are right about the new photo drivers licence
   but not everyone has one, mine is still an old pink one.
   My experience was also the same as yours, until recently,
   and the only ID I always carry is my drivers licence.

   The South Korean system can trace back to the fraudster’s
   account, or even their payg SIM, so they do not have this problem.

   Our traditional anglo-saxon freedoms condemn us to carrying
   around multiple forms of id and to pay for fraud in our prices.

   You are also correct that an ID card is not the answer in itself.
   The Greek’s have a new modern electronic card but with even stronger
   limitations as to how it can be used and they have the lowest
   e-commerce take-up in the EU. (They still use ‘cash on delivery’!)

   15 Dec 2008, 12:33

5. Starman

   In response to point 4, there are apparantely some 40 million drivings licences around today of which some 25 million are the new style photo driving licence. Naturally as time goes by, this number is bound to increase as people move home and have to update their address information. Perhaps, some 10 years after their introduction, it may be time for the DVLA to phase out the old style paper licence and have them replaced with the new photocard variety. I am told by one of my reliably- informed colleagues, that 85% of the population have either a driving licence, a passport or both. If this is the case, then there must be plenty of officially-issued Photo identification out there for general use. My big problem with ID cards is that for the Billions of pounds it is going to cost to roll it out across the whole country, it will prove to be, in most cases, no more than a show and go card that the photo driving licence has become today.

   At the end of the day however, ID Cards have less to do with practicalities and more to do with party politics !

   15 Dec 2008, 13:47

6. Robert McGonigle

   Agree about the costs; cannot argue with your stats.
   And politically, you are right, the ID card scheme is dead in the water.
   The cash will go on visible buildings & jobs.

   15 Dec 2008, 13:54

7. large parcel delivery

   large parcel delivery

   No comment regarding the delivery charges but 2 valid id’s would be enough.

   01 Jun 2011, 03:29