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I heard that in France, they'd use postal office workers to verify people's IDs. It's a brilliant alternative to whatever we're doing in Germany.
by nicbou 7mo ago
I heard that in France, they'd use postal office workers to verify people's IDs. It's a brilliant alternative to whatever we're doing in Germany.
- Zinu 7mo agoIsn’t that just like Postident in Germany?
- nicbou 7mo agoNot at all. Postident required going to the post office in person with your ID, and famously omitted a lot of foreign IDs and required an Anmeldung.
- FinnKuhn 7mo agoWhat are we doing in Germany? The options I have seen so far were a) using our digital IDs, which is very handy or b) having a bank verify my identity in person with my ID, which is also pretty good.
- nicbou 7mo agoThese options are not available to recent immigrants, people with foreign documents and people without a registered address. I spent a lot of time working around those limitations.
- FinnKuhn 7mo agoWhat is the difference between the second option and how they do it in France? I haven't tried it before, but shouldn't that work with foreign documents or without a registered address as well? Or is it more like that it should work in theory, but in practice those documents just aren't accepted?
- mrlnstk 7mo agoDon't we have PostIdent in Germany? At least I used it to open my bank account.
- jrjeksjd8d 7mo agoWe couldn't possibly employ people to solve the problem. Don't you know the post office is a waste of money?
- nicbou 7mo agoCorrection: I meant postal delivery workers. You don't have to leave your house.
- Tepix 7mo agoThat would require training a lot more people to pay very close attention to these matters and intimately know tons of different identity documents... doesn't sound very trustworthy.