Re: [84attendees] passport cards and such, was YVR Checkin Counter

[Randall Gellens <[e-mail]>]

At 11:47 AM -0400 8/10/12, Andrew Sullivan wrote:

>  None of
>  this counts for air travel, where for some reason the real live
>  passport is considered necessary in a way that it isn't needed at land
>  or sea ports.  If someone can explain to me why it is safer to let
>  someone across the border in their giant SUV with 12,000 tons of cargo
>  space using just a card, than to let someone into the country in an
>  airplane with their permitted 3.14159 picolitres of permitted no-fee
>  luggage using just a card, I'd be delighted to know.)

Well, when you put it that way :-)

I always figured it had nothing to do with what made sense for 
whatever ostensible purpose the passport/passport-like think is 
needed, but more of a convenience thing.

>  For my part, I'd just carry the passport.

Well, sure.  Me too.

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Randall Gellens
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