Letter to the UK Passport Office - Rant -(alleged )

This letter is all over forums as an actual letter received by the UK Passport
> Office.

Unsure of this claim although someone sHOULD send it .

I understand the frustration and rant here. How about you?

This world is bassackwards, eh?

Deleted the bad language . Hopefully I snipped all of them out!
>
>
> Dear Sirs,
>
> I'm in the process of renewing my passport, and still cannot believe
> this. How is it that Sky Television has my address and telephone
> number and knows that I bought a bleeding satellite dish from them
> back in 1977, and yet, the Government is still asking me where I was
> bloody born and on what date.
>
> For Christ sakes, do you guys do this by hand? My birth date you have
> on my pension book, and it is on all the income tax forms I've filed
> for the past 30 years. It is on my National Health card, my driving
> license, my car insurance, on the last eight ##$ 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.
>
> Would somebody please take note, once and for all, that my mother's
> name is Mary Anne, my father's name is Robert and I'd be
> abso-fZ#ing-lutely astounded if that ever changed between now and
> when I die!!!!!!
>
> I apologise, I'm really pissed off this morning. Between you an' me,
> I've had enough of this bulls***! You send the application to my house,
> then you ask me for my %X# address!!!!
>
> What is going on? Do you have a gang of Neanderthal arseholes workin'
> there? Look at my damn picture. Do I look like Bin Laden? I don't want
> to dig up Yasser Arafat, for # sakes. I just want to go and park
> my arse on some sandy beach somewhere. And would someone please tell
> me, why would you give a # 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, you'd be the last f#$ people
> I'd want to tell!
>
> Well, I have to go now, 'cause I have to go to the other end of the
> poxy city to get another [snip] copy of my birth certificate, to the
> tune of £30. 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??
> Nooooooooooooo, that'd be too damn easy and maybe make sense. You'd
> rather have us running all over the [snip] place like chickens with
> our heads cut off, then have to find some arsehole to confirm that
> it's really me on the damn picture - you know, the one where we're not
> allowed to smile?! (bureaucratic [snip] morons) Hey, do you know why
> we couldn't smile if we wanted to? Because 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 full security clearances over 25 of those years
> enabling me to undertake highly secretive missions all over the world.
> ......... However, I have to get someone 'important' to verify who I am
> - you know, someone like my doctor - WHO WAS BORN AND RAISED IN
##$ PAKISTAN !

> Sincerely,

Thought I would share this, as I just received this in a email. It's all over forums but I found no actual source. Anywhoo, I don't know about you guys but I'm with whoever wrote it!

sky in 1977 says its a fake as we only had 3 channels in those days

reply to post by Maxatoria


Hi Maxatoria,
Thank you for the reply.
I didn't think anyone actually sent the letter .
It's a bit more fishy especially when there is no signature , of course.
Regardless, I feel the frustration in this letter, as many, I'm sure, do.
Lots of truths here imo.

Appreciate your input!

reply to post by SeekerLou


From Wikipedia

In 1978 Satellite Television UK (SATV) was set up to broadcast over Europe

en.wikipedia.org...

I am not saying its real, just saying don't jump to ill informed conclusions. SATV is sky television, and it makes perfect sense that someone bought a dish during the pre order promotional period. The other thing is that all commercial companies track your purchases for marketing purposes, yes even in 1978.

reply to post by DrunkNinja


Thank you DrunkNina.

Appreciate the info.
IF a letter like this was sent, I do wonder what their response would be. How would they have handled this?

goes for any government department not just the passport office.

real or not the letter highlights quite well the monumental levels of government incompetency.

HAHA that reminds me when I had to go to the passport office for an interview to prove I was, well, me....
I was the only native British speaking pasty skinned bird in the place, now without being racist at all I'd still have been out of there quicker if I'd been wearing a bloody burkha.
It was both hilarious and frustrating in equal measures.