Madam, - Being in want of some cash to pay domestic bills last week I went into the post office in Andrew's Street. After a scant 23 minute wait behind the 39 other losers I gained the counter, presented passbook and bills and asked for €200.
"Have you a passport or a driver's licence?" enquired the young lady. I explained that I neither drive nor carry my passport about. "Then I can only let you have a hundred. You need photo identification for more."
Vainly did I point out: (a) If I wasn't who I claimed I'd be stealing the hundred so why not two? (b) If I was a felon I'd have to be some sort of Robin Hood figure who stole domestic bills in order to pay them.
If An Post wants photographic ID why doesn't it issue books with space for passport-size photographs? I mentioned this to the counterman in the branch I visited next day. "Ah, but that would be logical," he said, smiling. "You don't go looking for logic from An Post." Quite. - Yours, etc.,
TOM MATHEWS, Clareville Road, Dublin 6.