Goodbye, my plastic life!
One of the somehow most expected birthday presents this year was the expiration of my identity card. Now, call me an enthusiast, but I am looking forward to the thick paper trail laying ahead and to the amount of actual physical effort needed so that the state authorities invest me with a new functional convention: my brand new, perfectly identical document, proving my identity based on domicile (say what? domicile!).
By order of consequence, I am saying, at least for a while, goodbye to my debit/credit existence. Hello cash, again.
That’s because one of the banks, let’s call it the evil one, is freezing my account starting the 31st day after the expiry and until the moment I manage to provide a valid photo ID that includes the residence address. Evil and stupid. We’ll see if banks are at least as stupid when it comes to me paying them back money I owe them. My guess is yes. Cause the last time I did this they asked for my identity card. And that was, of course! at the dull bank
Between these two there is little left, but wait! A third contestant: the we’d-love-to-but-we’re-sorry bank! They first offered me a free of charge card, even sent me the PIN, but now are withholding the activation until said identity card is, you guessed it! issued.
All these while I have not ceased to exist AND I still have other valid photo identity documents, such as the passport and the drivers license.
Welcome to redtape country. Let me show you to your form!
Hm …. My guess is your bank is BRDor another Barbarous Rabid and Devious institution. When my ID last expired (having lost one, my ID expired last year) I managed to use my ABN and BCR cards, but not my BRD one. Their client service did not manage to explain things first hand, but managed to after a couple of days. And guess what, when I wanted to repay them, they asked me for my ID - I provided instead my passport - which then was lost, too - didn’t manage the whole situation soundly and so I ended up begging my mother to deposit money for me using the only valid ID of the family.
neah, it’s not. I guess banks are the same, then?