At 02:12 AM 2/10/98 +0100, Lucky Green wrote:
On Mon, 9 Feb 1998, Tim May wrote:
If a U.S. Passport is not considered enough I.D., because it doesn't have the Big Brother Inside magstripe, one walks away from the transaction.
Just as a data point, in the State of Oregon, an US passport is *not* valid ID for alcohol purchases. Magstripe or no magstripe.
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So I guess foreigners can't buy booze in Oregon at all. The new (last 10 years) passports don't have a mag stripe but do have the ICAO machine- reabable text string including a replay of the Passport info together with checksum digits. There is also space for a National ID Number for those countries which have one but it is blank on US passports since we don't have a national ID. DCF