> The people doing the verification are at a huge informational disadvantage because (I'm assuming) they're in a processing somewhere with minimal training and

> The people doing the verification are at a huge informational disadvantage because (I'm assuming) they're in a processing somewhere with minimal training and are expected to verify identities for every jurisdiction in the world. It's like me trying to verify the identity of someone in China. No matter how much training you give me, I'm probably never going to be as good at it as a local would be. The USPS is in an ideal and probably unique position to implement verification. Each office already has a handful of people who know you, personally, by name and location. They could pre-verify a large number of people without collecting or distributing additional info.