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You find it normal to carry around passports for domestic travel? How often do you travel?

newsoul2019 8y ago
In the current presidential administration, this has become a very good idea, to carry around excessive proof that you belong in this country....
chrisseaton 8y ago
I travel with work a lot. Seems normal to carry some ID like a passport when travelling, to me. Hotels often ask for ID. You don’t know if your plans will change and you’ll need to fly straight to another country, etc.
- mehrdadn 8y ago
  > Seems normal to carry some ID like a passport when travelling, to me. Some ID, yes, people try to have one all the time. A passport though? Most people I know only ever carry that for international travel. This is about domestic travel. > Hotels often ask for ID. You don’t know if your plans will change and you’ll need to fly straight to another country, etc. Yes but that's for international travel. We're asking about domestic travel because this affects them just the same.
- scarejunba 8y ago
  You’re atypical. People don’t usually have that happen to them (the domestic to international).
  - mehrdadn 8y ago
    I got the impression they fly international and didn't see we're talking about domestic.
- rconti 8y ago
  I'd venture to say 99.9% of Americans will never find themselves traveling internationally at the drop of a hat, without being able to return home first (!) It's certainly not happened to me, and I'm in the quite unusual position of being someone who's traveled internationally for business on <24h notice. In other words, no, I never take my passport with me unless I leave my house intending to leave the country.
cardiffspaceman 8y ago
The passport is a physically-robust booklet, while the drivers license is a comparatively fragile card. I can put the printed boarding pass in the passport, so it's easy to present to the TSA agent. As to how often I travel, I barely got to 10 nights on my highest-status hotel loyalty program, so I guess that means I travel some, but not lots.
- mehrdadn 8y ago
  Confused what the robustness of the passport has to do with this. I wasn't suggesting the physical flexibility of a passport makes it harder to carry it around or something. People generally just don't carry around passports for domestic travel in their own countries... people already have other IDs, this increases the chance you'll lose your passport, etc. for zero benefit.
  - alasdair_ 8y ago
    >People generally just don't carry around passports for domestic travel in their own countries I certainly did in the UK, as well as to prove my age in a bar etc. Lots and lots of people "in their own countries" don't have a driver's license because public transport is enough.
    - mehrdadn 8y ago
      Surely you realize the UK is well-known to take an unusual approach to ID issuance (or should I say lack thereof)?
    - vinay427 8y ago
      This has nothing to do with public transport. People here in Switzerland often carry ID cards or residence cards, and this seems common in many European countries similar to drivers licenses in the US and Canada. You also don't need to know how to drive to get a valid state ID in most states, as far as I know.
      - Symbiote 8y ago

newsoul2019 8y ago

In the current presidential administration, this has become a very good idea, to carry around excessive proof that you belong in this country....

chrisseaton 8y ago

I travel with work a lot. Seems normal to carry some ID like a passport when travelling, to me. Hotels often ask for ID. You don’t know if your plans will change and you’ll need to fly straight to another country, etc.

mehrdadn 8y ago
> Seems normal to carry some ID like a passport when travelling, to me. Some ID, yes, people try to have one all the time. A passport though? Most people I know only ever carry that for international travel. This is about domestic travel. > Hotels often ask for ID. You don’t know if your plans will change and you’ll need to fly straight to another country, etc. Yes but that's for international travel. We're asking about domestic travel because this affects them just the same.
scarejunba 8y ago
You’re atypical. People don’t usually have that happen to them (the domestic to international).
- mehrdadn 8y ago
  I got the impression they fly international and didn't see we're talking about domestic.
rconti 8y ago
I'd venture to say 99.9% of Americans will never find themselves traveling internationally at the drop of a hat, without being able to return home first (!) It's certainly not happened to me, and I'm in the quite unusual position of being someone who's traveled internationally for business on <24h notice. In other words, no, I never take my passport with me unless I leave my house intending to leave the country.

cardiffspaceman 8y ago

The passport is a physically-robust booklet, while the drivers license is a comparatively fragile card. I can put the printed boarding pass in the passport, so it's easy to present to the TSA agent. As to how often I travel, I barely got to 10 nights on my highest-status hotel loyalty program, so I guess that means I travel some, but not lots.

mehrdadn 8y ago
Confused what the robustness of the passport has to do with this. I wasn't suggesting the physical flexibility of a passport makes it harder to carry it around or something. People generally just don't carry around passports for domestic travel in their own countries... people already have other IDs, this increases the chance you'll lose your passport, etc. for zero benefit.
- alasdair_ 8y ago
  >People generally just don't carry around passports for domestic travel in their own countries I certainly did in the UK, as well as to prove my age in a bar etc. Lots and lots of people "in their own countries" don't have a driver's license because public transport is enough.
  - mehrdadn 8y ago
    Surely you realize the UK is well-known to take an unusual approach to ID issuance (or should I say lack thereof)?
  - vinay427 8y ago
    This has nothing to do with public transport. People here in Switzerland often carry ID cards or residence cards, and this seems common in many European countries similar to drivers licenses in the US and Canada. You also don't need to know how to drive to get a valid state ID in most states, as far as I know.
    - Symbiote 8y ago