Monday 26 September 2022

A Post Office service

Back in 2018 I reported at reference 1 on my difficulty in getting certified copies of identifying documents that I could send off to a financial services company which wanted them.

Today, I was asked by a legal services company for some more certified copies. So I go to the helpful solicitor up some back stairs, the chap I ended up using last time, to find that he has retired and that his successor has stopped doing copies. Far too much bother with the regulators, far too much risk. But at least one of the clerks volunteered the information that the Post Office do do copies.

Which they do. Visit the library to make the copies - where they are happy to change a £20 note into something that I can feed their photocopier with. Visit the Post Office for the second time to certify the copies. Not such a grand stamp as the solicitor used, but I dare say that it will do.

Pop home to package the copies up and put them in an envelope. Visit the Post Office for the third time to buy tracked delivery. Job hopefully done.

But it remains a mystery why it is OK for the Post Office to take on the risk, but not for banks, building societies or solicitors. Nor am I very sure what the risk is: after all, on the record, all that they are saying is that the piece of paper A is a true copy of the piece of paper B. They are certainly not saying anything about piece of paper B, although, maybe, when I was not looking, they took a quick look at the copy of the very bad photograph on my driving license and decided that it was near enough me.

References

Reference 1: https://psmv3.blogspot.com/2018/08/legal-and-financial-services.html.

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