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Home » Living in Thailand » Reader submission: Show passport when sending mail?
Reader submission: Show passport when sending mail?
Posted in Living in Thailand, Reader Submission
Tags: Jomtien, Post office, Rain
Recently experienced in Jomtien. Wading through 50 cm of water I arrive in Jomtien post office with a letter. Got a little wet which leads to remarks to use a new envelope and copy the address. Bit exaggerated.
But then I was asked for a passport. A Thai driver's license was refused.
Would a new rule be that a PASSPORT must be submitted when sending abroad because of the fear of tree envelopes? So be warned because who walks with a passport in his pocket.
Incidentally, half of Jomtien was flooded and some soi's impassable. In Kao Talo and other places, the water came out of the sewers instead of going in. It was a deluge.
Submitted by Bob
When sending a package I was also asked and I have a Thai 'farang' ID and that was OK. Furthermore, you are required to have your passport with you if you are not Thai, a Thai must carry his ID with him. I always have a copy of the passport with me and when I go out of town I always carry my passport.
Okay, I know that. But a Thai driver's license is normally accepted everywhere. But in this case that was not accepted. No problem at another office.
This only applies to packages and envelopes that are quite large (due to possible drug trafficking).
Bit of a strange story. You had to buy a new envelope so that there was no bomb in it seems to me quite clear even to the Thai postal worker if you had to pack things there. I think more like bullying a portion of farang when I hear it like that.
The postal worker may have been instructed to do so.
And he must register the name of the sender.
Then he can get into trouble with an envelope without a name.
But when it comes to letters, I rather wonder whether the communication with foreign countries is checked and possibly read.
But how would it go, with mail that is simply thrown into the mailbox?
In recent years, I have sent a letter 10x via the same post office (in soi 5), even 1x by registered mail, but no ID was ever asked.
I have photos of my passport including visa in my mobile.
That seems smart, but have you ever heard of identity fraud? If you lose your phone or it is stolen, the thief or finder will also have your identity information available.
Nowadays you can protect your phone with codes and, as additional documents on the phone, again with passwords. Or access confidential documents by logging in to secure sites.
Dear Frans Nico: Do you have no security on your phone? Nothing works for me without an access code
They usually also accept a copy of your passport
I've experienced that too. Same post office. Package sent very well packed. Had to cut it all open and cut it apart because that dick had to know what was inside. While that was clearly stated on the form.
it was not a package!!!!
This is not new.
We ship regularly and it is always requested.
Reason: if there is something in it that is not acceptable, they know who it came from.
Incidentally, the Thai must also show his or her passport.
I have a photo of my passport and it will suffice.
Dear Bob,
before I give my opinion, first a question: was it a normal shipment or a registered mail with EMS?
Please provide some more clarification.
Hello, It was an oblong envelope containing 5 A4 sheets folded in 3. My address was on the back. I wanted to send the envelope by registered mail.
Let the Thai post deliver the bank cards at home that are being held back, the letters with activation code and the pin will arrive, I have been without a bank card for half a year. But that is not the fault of the Thai post, but in the Netherlands it is said .
I went to Bangkok 3 weeks ago to send a package for a friend of mine that I brought for him from the Netherlands addressed to his in-laws in Thailand, also had to show my passport, the color copy I had with me was not accepted, so could back to my hotel to get my original passport.
According to the paper that the officer showed me, it was mainly to detect drug shipments
This is not unusual...it is posted in every post office that one must be able to prove one's identity with a passport. I have also experienced it... people follow this to detect possible "drug traffic".
No problem...
I'm starting to get a little worried about the members of this blog.
We no longer live in colonial times, even Thailand has become a modern society.
In every country you must enter the address of the sender when sending a package.
Every counter clerk, in any counter in the world, is obliged to check the identity of the person who presents a package for shipment.
This is mandatory because the contents of a package can contain some rather strange things. Ranging from drugs, to body parts of kidnapped persons, to child pornography.
Like everywhere in the world, mostly in the Netherlands or Belgium, this rule is often forgotten. In Belgium, when sending a package, the ID card is often, but not always, requested.
In Thailand, the only legal ID we have as farrang is our passport. The pink card, turn it over, the first line, "this is not an ID card" hopefully needs no explanation. And no, not even in Thailand, like in Belgium and the Netherlands or the rest of Europe, a driver's license is not a valid ID.
Expect in Thailand, because one is a farrang, not to comply with these international rules, fill it in yourself.
And additionally, if you are concerned about your identity, if no one should know who the sender is, we can already guess what was in the package.
Do not see the problem, if they want to see it, they can look, although the farang id card and Thai driving license are also accepted here, only if we leave the village for a few days and spend the night in a hotel or resort and ask for a passport asks do I refuse to hand it over, so whether the farang id the driver's license and otherwise greetings to the next sleeping accommodation.
For parcels and EMS, etc., I am usually asked for my passport. (I think copy is also ok because people just want some data.)
I never showed anything for regular letters.
… but what else:
Registered mail has been in Thailand for as long as I know a reason to make things disappear IN Thailand. outgoing international.as well as local.Plus incoming from abroad: my advice to never use Registered.
… I think bank cards have arrived for 20 years without any problems.
But I also live in bkk in a neighborhood where there may not be organized interest. (to get both pass and pin code letter one has to be more organized than 1 person the system seems to me….unless you have someone smart and money oriented at the counter in your condo.
.. Thai mail?
A) damn cheap also internationally.
B) I had ordered an extra random reader from the Netherlands. When the first one did not arrive I checked my bank in NL. It turned out that the relevant department had not entered my full address here.
Other post same bank is OK!
They sent the box again in an envelope, but after another 3 months nothing. I call bank nl again. They would do it again 'with full address'.
This time it got to me. I could see from the stamps and note it was third shipment.
But the address was still too short and would never have reached me unless smart staff at the central office didn't understand what was wrong and manually added the total OK address.
.. thanks Thai post
..don't thank my bank in this case because of the time and effort this took… and where apparently something is wrong with their system… and which has cost me some beers in phone costs.
Gerrit