This letter is a thing of beauty...You definitely feel the guy's pain! An actual letter to
> the passport office...
>
>
> Dear sirs,
>
> I'm in the process of renewing my passport, and still cannot believe
> this. How is it that Radio Shack has my address and telephone number
> and knows that I bought a cable t.v. from them back in 1987, 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
> on my social security card, and it is on all the income tax
> forms I've filed for the past 30 years. It is on my health insurance card, my
> driver's license, 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 that are done at election times.
>
> Would somebody please take note, once and for all, that my mother's
> name is Maryanne, my father's name is Robert and I'd be absolutely
> astounded if that ever changed between now and when I die!!!!!!
>
> I apologize, I'm really pissed off this morning. Between you an' me,
> I've had enough of this bull! You send the application to my house,
> then you ask me for my ###' address.
>
> What is going on? You have a gang of Neanderthal assholes workin'
> there! Look at my damn picture. Do I look like Bin Laden? I don't
> want to dig up Yasser Arafat, for sh*t sakes. I just want to go and
> park my ass on a sandy beach.
>
> And would someone please tell me, why would you give a sh*t
> 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,
> I'd sure as hell not want to tell anyone!
>
> Well, I have to go now, 'cause I have to go to the other end of the
> city and get another copy of my birth certificate, to the tune of
> $60. 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??
> Nooooo, that'd be to damn easy and maybe makes sense. You'd rather
> have us running all over the place like chickens with our heads cut
> off, then find some *sshole to confirm that it's really me on
> the damn picture - you know,the one where we're not allowed to smile?!
> (bureaucratic morons) Hey, you know why we can't smile? 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 security clearances up the vingyang ........
> However, I have to get someone 'important' to verify who I am - you
> know, someone like my doctor WHO WAS BORN AND RAISED IN INDIA !
>
> Sincerely,
> You Sure In The Hell Should Know Who.
>