Informed delivery is just them leveraging the scanning and storing of the front and back of every piece of mail shipped in the US which they've been doing for o

Informed delivery is just them leveraging the scanning and storing of the front and back of every piece of mail shipped in the US which they've been doing for over a decade and totally isn't creepy as hell...but yes. Singing up for this was amazingly easy. I think it took me under a minute to fill in and submit. Instant page load and form submission processing. No captcha checks. No weird javascript address validators (half of them think my address is malformed). No needlessly "cute" page design/graphics. No problems with any of the slew of privacy and ad-blocking tools I have installed. Filled in my address and email, clicked submit, done. Seconds later, I had an email from them confirming it. This is proof that government can work just fine. Guarantee that if this had been a private contracted thing we would have ended up with some monstrosity of browser-choking javascript, needlessly cutesy page design, etc. Can we please bring this sort of simplicity and efficiency to paying income tax / calculating withholdings and W4s? Or, FFS, everything the IRS does? And how about a national ID system, please? We already have nearly 1% of the US population in such a system: the DoD's Common Access Card. Lessons learned from that could easily be applied to a national digital/physical ID card. The crap I (and especially my parents) had to go through to prove to my DMV that we were honest-to-god citizen and could have a RealID drivers license...which isn't actually useful for anything except getting on a plane or into a federal building...was insane. And embarrassing, for a "first world" nation in this day and age.