BS: Banks and National ID Cards

Subject: Banks and National ID Cards
From: Haruo
Date: 21 Jan 02 - 07:04 PM

I don't have a bank account (nor a credit card), and every two weeks I go to the local Bank of America branch — the bank my paycheck is drawn on — and cash it. Two weeks ago, they told me that the ID I presented was insufficient (a state ID card with photo, a county voter's registration card with no photo but the same address as the ID, and my right index fingerprint — the same three items I've used every two weeks for over two years at the same branch) and I had to go through a lot of hoops to get a bank manager to sign off on it. I discussed with the bank manager what I possess in the way of additional ID, and turns out the only thing they will accept that I have is my — get this — Vietnam Era Draft Card. Back in 1973 the Selective Service System told me I must keep this card in my possession at all times, and by some minor miracle I have done so. So I was able to take it in to the bank last Friday and cash my paycheck. And then that very day I saw this cartoon in the P-I: "If we fought bank robbery the way we fight terrorism".

FWIW, a few weeks ago I saw this example of Guerrilla Public Art in Seattle (it's the stop sign under the Burke Gilman Trail on 6th Ave NE, near Ivar's Salmon House, for those who know the area): Stoppppp! sign. I went back a couple days later to photograph it and it had been removed, so I had to make this on the computer.

Liland

PS So I guess I'll probably have to get a bank account again.

Subject: RE: BS: Banks and National ID Cards
From: katlaughing
Date: 21 Jan 02 - 07:26 PM

Liland, your second link didn't got to anything.

I had to argue with a bank manager, back in 1991 or so because they were not going to accept US Dollars for a utility bill which I had paid there every month, in cash, for several years. Their claim was the utility company forbade it. I went round and round with the bank manager, who told me pretty soon people would be paying everything with back cards and cash would be obsolete! I wrote a letter to the bank and the utility company and by the following month they'd rescinded their policy and went back to accepting cash.

Has anyone here heard anything baout the grocery store discount cards feeding info about your buying habits into something called the DCIS? Supposedly that is how they caught one would be terrorist or something because they tracked what he was buying and it didn't add up to any good or something. I was told this by someone in town who said a grocery store check out person said when she doesn't like the looks of someone, she will look them up in this "DCIS." Or is it "DCIC?" I know Wymoming has its share of paranoids, so just wondering if any of you have ever heard of this?

Oh, Liland, when my daughter back East didn't drive, she had a state i.d. card that looked like a driver's license but was marked to be used for identification purposes only. She never seemed to have any problems with that.

We went without any kind of bank acct. for over 10 years. Now, when one tries to pay everything with cash they are suspect!

kat

Subject: RE: BS: Banks and National ID Cards
From: Haruo
Date: 21 Jan 02 - 07:39 PM

Sorry about the nonworking link (it should work; it's just Yahoo!GeoCities being unfriendly. Try my most recent photo album and scroll down to the last photo. See if that works.

Liland

Subject: RE: BS: Banks and National ID Cards
From: katlaughing
Date: 21 Jan 02 - 07:41 PM

Liland, as a joeclone, I had a look at your link. There's just no addy entered for the second one and in the subsequent one. If it is the same as the first one, I can edit it in for you. just let me know or try posting it, again?:-) Sorry....kat

Subject: RE: BS: Banks and National ID Cards
From: hesperis
Date: 21 Jan 02 - 07:43 PM

I got there... open in new window. Or had you edited it already? I saw this thread when it was only her first posting in it. *shrug*

Subject: RE: BS: Banks and National ID Cards
From: katlaughing
Date: 21 Jan 02 - 07:45 PM

Got it all by himself! Thanks, Liland!

Heyahesp!

Subject: RE: BS: Banks and National ID Cards
From: Haruo
Date: 21 Jan 02 - 07:45 PM

Feel free to remove the first of the two superficially identical posts, as well as this one, kat. I hit enter (post) when I meant to hit enter (insert URL). The second one works.

Liland

Subject: RE: BS: Banks and National ID Cards
From: Haruo
Date: 21 Jan 02 - 07:47 PM

You guys are too fast! :-)

Liland

Subject: RE: BS: Banks and National ID Cards
From: Amergin
Date: 22 Jan 02 - 01:25 AM

Well...I went down to Orange County a few weeks ago...and when I was hopping aboard the plane in Portland, OR...they almost did not accept my id...it is a federal id with my picture, ssn, and my thumb print, and my address.....and they almost did not accept it.....feller had to go to his boss....and held everyone else up...then he had the gall to ask for my ssn card....before he would take it....i guess some folks have to feel more important than they actually are.

Subject: RE: BS: Banks and National ID Cards
From: Haruo
Date: 22 Jan 02 - 09:57 PM

Well, both the bank and the SSAdmin (SS is such an evocative pair of letters, whether as in Social Security or as in Selective Service or as in ... ;-) tell me it is illegal (their term) to use a Social Security card for identification. Although in order to be employed it is required. Nothing quite like a bureaucracy to grease the wheels of freedom and mutual human respect, eh?

Liland