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.

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jrjeksjd8d 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

We couldn't possibly employ people to solve the problem. Don't you know the post office is a waste of money?

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Zinu 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Isn’t that just like Postident in Germany?

	▲	nicbou 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Not 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.

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FinnKuhn 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

What 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 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		These 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.

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mrlnstk 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Don't we have PostIdent in Germany? At least I used it to open my bank account.