[LINK] Australia Post to lose passport services

[Hamish Moffatt]

On 07/04/16 18:51, Andy Farkas wrote:
> On 07/04/2016 18:35, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
>>
>> Post have never taken the photos, you've always had to supply your 
>> own. Why couldn't they be uploaded as part of the application and 
>> verified when the application is checked?
>
> That is incorrect.
>
> I had to get a passport late last year. Went to the post office (~30 min
> drive from where I live), checked my hair and stood in front of the fixed
> camera on the counter. For some reason it didn't work, so she got the
> hand-held camera, took us out the back and snapped some shots there.
> She printed them off, put them in a nice envelope, and handed them
> back to us to get endorsed.
>
> Oh, and no appointment necessary. Just rock up and say you want
> passport photos.

Cool, seems that's new. I got my latest one in 2014, and you definitely 
still had to go to the pharmacy or whatever and pay nearly $20 for 
passport photos then.


Hamish