Saturday, November 24, 2018

another passport note

When I renewed my passport last month I also ordered a passport card.  When I received my new passport yesterday it was all alone but there was a form inclosed explaining that my passport card and my old passport would be mailed separately.  I guess that makes sense for security reasons.  My old passport arrived today and I am happy to have it back, even with two holes punched in it, for the history it represents (22 countries at last count) but I was amused to see that, while my new passport was mailed in a priority, insured envelope, the old one came in a plain brown envelope.  Who knows how the card will arrive?  
Here's something else that gave me a little laugh. I admit to being easily entertained.  On the picture page my passport is identified as being a passport in three different languages: English - passport, French - passeport, and Spanish - pasaporte (or maybe that last one is Italian?).  These three words are so similar that I don't know why they bothered.  If they want to identify the document in other languages, why not Chinese or Korean or Burmese or German or Russian?  Yet another question that I'll probably never have an answer to.  Ah well....

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