Expired Passport - Update

On Wed, 2 Jan 2008 22:06:54 +0530, "William Black" <william.black@.uk>
wrote:

>
>"Martin" <me@address.invalid> wrote in message
>news:7lrmn3t9uoqihqslf7ce197cvolhdh601c@.. .
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>> It's odd that the equipment they use to scan passports didn't flag that
>> the
>> passport was out of date.
>
>Older passports are not scan able.

How much older?
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Martin

On Wed, 02 Jan 2008 16:55:39 +0000, Padraig Breathnach <padraigb@MUNGEDiol.ie>
wrote:

>Martin <me@address.invalid> wrote:
>
>>On Wed, 2 Jan 2008 22:06:54 +0530, "William Black" <william.black@.uk>
>>wrote:
>>>
>>>Older passports are not scan able.
>>
>>How much older?
>
>Those old enough to be out of date.

I understand why they ignored his passport now.
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Martin

On Wed, 2 Jan 2008 22:54:58 -0000, "tim....." <tims_new_home.uk> wrote:

>
>"Martin" <me@address.invalid> wrote in message
>news:gb4on31bjuf8fq54bavb59u0t06fhkk1dc@.. .
>> On Wed, 2 Jan 2008 14:14:52 -0800 (PST), bigbrian <harry8611@m>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>On 2 Jan, 17:05, Martin <m...@address.invalid> wrote:
>>>> On Wed, 02 Jan 2008 16:55:39 +0000, Padraig Breathnach
>>>> <padra...@MUNGEDiol.ie>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> >Martin <m...@address.invalid> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> >>On Wed, 2 Jan 2008 22:06:54 +0530, "William Black"
>>>> >><william.bl...@.uk>
>>>> >>wrote:
>>>>
>>>> >>>Older passports are not scan able.
>>>>
>>>> >>How much older?
>>>>
>>>> >Those old enough to be out of date.
>>>>
>>>> I understand why they ignored his passport now.
>>>> --
>>>
>>>FWIW, my passport is only a few years old, and is machine readable.
>>>The reason its out of date already is because I had a previous
>>>passport stolen, and the replacement was only issued for the remaining
>>>unexpired period of the original, in case the original turned up. It
>>>was scanned on arrival at LHR, but seemed to throw up nothing
>>>untoward. I can only assume that the scanning process only checks the
>>>validity of the original issue, and not the expiry date.
>>
>> That's not very encouraging. As far as I can tell mine only has the issue
>> date
>> amongst the stuff that the scanner reads.
>
>Mine has the expiry date
>
>161102 (YYMMDD)
>
>prefixed with M, suffix 5.

Yes you are right. I was wrong.

Mine has M160131
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Martin

John Kane wrote:
>
> O
> >
> > I have no problem believing that. I have been to Europe three times and
> > only once did anyone look inside my passport. That was in Copenhagen. He
> > opened it up and stamped it, the only time it was ever stamped. The rest of
> > the time I just held up my Canadian passport and they waved me through.
>
> I don't even remember Charles de Gaule people even looking at
> passports when I got off a Canadian charter. I think they were
> shocked when I actually asked them something about bringing my bicycle
> into to the country.


It was almost 15 years ago that I flew into CDG on a Canadian charter. I
recall being given a card to fill out. We walked to the gate and there was
a guy sitting at a counter. We handed him the completed cards and held out
our passports. He took the cards without looking at them, glanced at the
Canadian passports we were holding and waved us through. Travelling by
train from Germany to Switzerland, Switzerland to Italy, some guys in
uniforms came through the train car checking passports. The people behind
us had eastern European accents and got a bit of a grilling but when they
got to us we just held up our Canadian passports and they nodded and walked
away, and did the same with Americans sitting across from us.

On Fri, 4 Jan 2008 14:41:57 +0000, d4g4h4.uk (David Horne, _the_
chancellor (*)) wrote:

>Martin <me@address.invalid> wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 4 Jan 2008 14:20:51 +0000, d4g4h4.uk (David Horne, _the_
>> chancellor (*)) wrote:
>[]
>> >He's too busy arguing in another place that only the nobility are
>> >allowed to own private aircraft in Europe.
>>
>> because European CEOs earn less than EUR 750/month gross and couldn;t possibly
>> afford a private plane? I can think of around a dozen that I knew who owned a
>> private plane. None are royalty.
>
>My high school maths teacher had a 4-seater cessna. It's not a _cheap_
>thing to take up, for sure, but it's not just in the realm of the super
>rich IME. If Mixi visited a small airfield, rather than doing flyovers
>in his underwear from home, he might appreciate this...
>
>A few of the UK royal family are trained pilots, but that's mostly for
>reasons other than wealth...

.... fodder for the press? :-)
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Martin

"David Horne, _the_ chancellor (*)" <d4g4h4.uk> wrote in message
news:1ia74mn.u2wxtzbj647nN%d4g4h4.uk...
> Martin <me@address.invalid> wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 4 Jan 2008 14:20:51 +0000, d4g4h4.uk (David Horne, _the_
>> chancellor (*)) wrote:
> []
>> >He's too busy arguing in another place that only the nobility are
>> >allowed to own private aircraft in Europe.
>>
>> because European CEOs earn less than EUR 750/month gross and couldn;t
>> possibly
>> afford a private plane? I can think of around a dozen that I knew who
>> owned a
>> private plane. None are royalty.
>
> My high school maths teacher had a 4-seater cessna. It's not a _cheap_
> thing to take up, for sure, but it's not just in the realm of the super
> rich IME.

It isn't fair, when it is a well-known fact (because Mixi said it) that we
poor Europeans have to save up for 10 years for a TV.
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JohnT