Just wondering if people wrote more letters like this, woul public service from Government departments improve ? This doesn't just apply to Ireland ..

(I removed the guy's name at the end to protect the innocent !!!)


> Subject: Australian Passport Application Letter
>
> Dear Minister,
>
> I'm in the process of renewing my passport, and still cannot believe this.
>
> How is it that Dick Smith has my address and telephone number and
> knows that I bought a TV cable from them back in 1997, and yet, the
> Federal Government is still asking me where I was born and on what
> date?
>
> For Christ's sake, do you guys do this by hand?
>
> You have my birth date on all the income tax forms I've filed for the
> past 30 years. It's on my health insurance card, my driver's licence,
> on the last eight bloody passports I've had, on all those stupid
> customs declaration forms I've had to fill out before being allowed
> off the planes over the last 30 years, and all those insufferable
> census forms that are done at election times.
>
> Would somebody please take note, once and for all, that my mother's
> name is Maryanne, my father's name is Robert, and I'd be absolutely
> astounded if that ever changed between now and when I
> die!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>
> I apologise Minister, but I'm really pissed off this morning.
> Between you and me, I've had enough of this ********! You mail the
> application to my house, then you ask me for my ****ing address. What
> is going on? You have a gang of Neanderthal arseholes working there?
> Look at my damn picture. Do I look like Bin Laden? I don't want to
> dig up Yasser Arafat, for **** sakes. I just want to go and park my
> arse on a sandy beach. And would someone please tell me, why would
> you give a **** whether I plan on visiting a farm in the next 15 days?
> If I ever got the urge to do something weird to a chicken or a goat,
> believe you me, I'd sure as hell not want to tell anyone!
>
> Well, I have to go now, because I have to go to the other end of the
> city and get another ****ing copy of my birth certificate, to the tune
> of $60! Would it be so complicated to have all the services in the
> same spot to assist in the issuance of a new passport the same day?
> But nooooo, that'd be too damn easy and maybe make sense. You'd
> rather have us running all over the ****ing place like chickens with
> our heads cut off, then find some arsehole to confirm that it's really
> me on the goddamn picture -- you know, the one where we're not allowed
> to smile in?! ****ing morons!
>
> Hey, you know why we can't smile? Because we're totally pissed off!
>
> Signed - An Irate ****ing Australian Citizen.
>
> P.S. Remember what I said above about the picture and getting someone
> to confirm that it's me? Well, my family has been in this country
> since 1788 when one of my forefathers arrived in a convict ship
> I have served in the military and have had security clearances up the
> yingyang. I was aide de camp to the Governor of our State for three
> years, and I have been doing volunteer work for the CMF for about five
> years. However, I have to get someone 'important' to verify who I am
> -- you know someone like my doctor WHO WAS BORN AND RAISED IN
> COMMUNIST ****ING CHINA!!!


Best Regards

He's a subject to the Queen, not a citizen.

Stand in front of an Aussie and tell him THAT!

Haha brilliant

Definitely. Very good but more people need to follow this lead. Especially in this country.