Posted on 05/14/2006 7:01:08 AM PDT by jefferson31415
I have been a lurker here for many years- this is my first post and I apologize if it seems like a vanity.
My passport was lost in the mail when I sent the old one back to the govt get it renewed. The post office records show that it was delivered to me, but I never got it.
I am very worried that it will be misused for some kind of criminal act- smuggling illegal aliens or terrorism.
The post office completely ignored me and the passport office said I should simply file some form. But I do not know if that will actually prevent something bad from happening.
What should I do???
Post of the day! :)
Regards,
Ignore the arrogant . . . windbags.
Tuscaloosa G's advice is great as is the one following.
The bureaucracy has different responses depending on the person and the context involved--i.e. the clerk and the context.
Overseas, lost passports get a bit more attention--you usually need to document all the details involved in it coming up missing. Given all the givens and the terror war--one would think they'd be a bit more concerned in the USA. But, given the numbers of people, lost passports are a fairly common thing. People lose things.
Evidently the Post Office is insisting that it was delivered to your home. It's not clear whether a signed receipt was required, or not. Evidently not.
There's probably not much you can do but apply for the new one on the form required as the passport office told you. You might file a report with the local police and FBI for formality sake and to have a record that you did all you could do. But I would wager that both the police and the FBI would think you were being obsessive and/or prissy or some such. Not that their opinions should stop you.
You might try and think back as to who might have been at home or how it might have been intercepted at your home somehow. One assumes that you had no Mexican yard laborers who might have intercepted it etc.
I think the short of it is, put all the details on the form from the passport office and get your new one and pray that no one is able to use it for ill ends. Notifying police and FBI is an option but may not be worth your bother besides a letter or email to each or some such. You might just send them a copy of the passport form which should include all the important details.
maybe not terrrorism, but it could be used to help illegal aliens, money laundering, identity theft, smuggling drugs from overseas...etc.
Even if the postman scans each person's mail and each piece of mail as he delivers it, he can still drop the item on the ground after he does that. I've certainly had to retrieve my mail from the street, other people's mailboxes, etc.
is my writing that bad?...LOL
I am writing kind of fast to respond to everyone.
Also true, but that's the way the cookie crumbles. other than making reports and protecting your own identity, you cannot possibly personally track that passport to whoever has it now. I would calm down in that you have zero control over those events (once you thoroughly report teh loss) and I don''t think you can assume your passport is at the center of som ecritical event. It might be interesting to find out how many are lost or stolen a year. I bet your passport has a lot of company.
Go to that website and notify them, follow directions as listed.
The ILLEGALS shine a new light on items, "lost in the mail". How many ILLEGALS take what they want and leave the rest. Oh yes, tampering with the mail is a felony, but they're ILLEGAL. Professional lawbreakers...
This is the only post on this thread that makes any sense at all ;~D
Postal worker 1: "There's a guy out in the lobby arguing with me about lost mail, and he won't leave"
Postal worker 2: "Tell him about the super secret mail tracker program"
Postal worker 1: "And that gets rid of them?"
Postal worker 2: "Every time"
Okay.
Just checking.
A felony to steal a postal carrier... really!?
Duh. Your old passport is no longer valid, as you have a new one. Suggest you relax and stopp bugging people.
They probably just took Ling-Ling's head to see if they could remove the part that causes that infernal and incessant yapping. They'll bring it back as soon as the problem has been corrected so don't worry.
"Even if the postman scans each person's mail and each piece of mail as he delivers it, he can still drop the item on the ground after he does that. I've certainly had to retrieve my mail from the street, other people's mailboxes, etc."
Not only can he drop it, the mailman can be delivering the mail to the wrong mailbox in the first place. I've had that happen countless times. I used to live in a house and would commonly get the mail for another house on the corner. And in an apartment situation with a bank of mailboxes mail is commonly shoved into the wrong box. Even if the mailman was scanning mail one femtosecond before he puts it in the box it does not matter if he THINKS he's at the right box but is WRONG. And we know the regular post office does not scan anything before leaving it. They barely glimpse at it with their eyeballs.
just to clarify-the NEW one that the govt sent back to me is the one that got lost..
Call the White House ask for George W. Bush he'll know what to do.
Barring that do what the passport office is telling you to do.
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