Kerfluffle at CVS yesterday

[conuly]

Their system is not really set up to accept passport cards as identification. This has not previously been a problem because most of their cashiers know the workaround, and even if I bump into one who doesn't, they can usually ask somebody else.

(Apparently the workaround is to enter it like a driver's license, and now I know!)

Yesterday I hit the bad luck jackpot. Several irritated minutes later, wherein we all barely refrained from snapping at each other (do not blame me, irritated pharmacists, blame your shitty computer interface!) we resolved it. But ugh, ugh, ugh.

Do you think it's a CVS-in-particular interface or something general that's shipped out to everybody? I want to know where to direct my complaints for the best chance of getting results. Honestly, if the workaround "enter it as a driver's license" works then it should be trivial to have that slot say "driver's license or passport card".

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[sathari]

...I am sooo late to this post, but I just want to give drive-by love to passport cards as general-purpose ID; I have been using mine any time I have to prove I'm me ever since I got one a decade ago. (It's SO NICE not to have to show my physical address to anyone who wants to look over my shoulder every time I just want to prove I'm me. SO SO NICE.)

[conuly]

:)

I got mine because I didn't *have* a physical ID and, for some reason, it's a lot easier to get a passport if you don't have a valid photo ID than a state ID.

There was no way of getting the points of identification for a state ID, most of which require an ID to get. For a passport, I gathered up every speck of documentation I could find (for me, my social security card and birth certificate, three old school IDs, and my passport from when I was 5), everything photocopied front and back, and then dragged my mother in to the post office to act as a qualifying witness. Any citizen with an ID who has known you 5 years can do that job. They sign an affidavit and that's that.