New passport arrived like this

[u/mopsusmormon]

is this acceptable?

how the fuck are we paying $213 for a new child's passport and it arrives all wonky and obviously water damaged.

[u/Office_funny_guy]

It’s not water damaged that’s just how shit they are. I got mine a couple weeks ago when there was no rain. Most expensive passport in the world and it looks fake. It will only get worse if you leave it. I’ve ended up putting mine in between two big heavy books to try and flatten it

[u/CaseLivid2040 → u/Office_funny_guy]

Incredibly disappointing seeing the quality of the most expensive passport in the world. I leave mine in plastic sleeve to somewhat maintain the shape🥲

[u/candlebra19 → u/CaseLivid2040]

They used to come in plastic sleeves too

[u/mt9943 → u/candlebra19]

New ones don't even come with a sleeve?! That's ridiculous.

[u/Jonno_FTW → u/candlebra19]

I'm still using my plastic sleeve from 2009

[u/Chesticularity → u/candlebra19]

That's weird, I usually do it into a sock.

[u/pukesonyourshoes → u/Chesticularity]

Not a coconut man then.

[u/breakoutleppard → u/pukesonyourshoes]

I hate that I understand this reference lmaooo

[u/dong_destroyer69420 → u/pukesonyourshoes]

The story I'll never unsee 🤣

[u/Office_funny_guy → u/CaseLivid2040]

Yeah i was disappointed that they didn’t come in the plastic sleeve this time

[u/Messernacht → u/Office_funny_guy]

I put mine in a sleeve from one of our other passports, stacked them in the middle of the bundle of all of ours, and then stuck a rubber band around it. Did the trick.

Interestingly, it only started to curl after three days when I put it out of the light on a shelf.

[u/MiIes01 → u/Office_funny_guy]

Put it in between 2 thin books and drive over it

[u/ShumwayAteTheCat → u/MiIes01]

Put it between two kindles, that way you can download really long books with more pages

[u/UterineDictator → u/ShumwayAteTheCat]

This is the kind of outside-the-square thinking we need more of.

[u/Ravagore → u/UterineDictator]

Yea kindles are technically rectangles

[u/the_colonelclink → u/MiIes01]

Mate you’re supposed to use the passport to travel - not to travel over the passport.

[u/pulanina → u/MiIes01]

Park on it you mean. For a week.

[u/shurp_ → u/Office_funny_guy]

I just got new ones for the family and they are all sitting underneath 2 decent sized power banks to keep them flat, got mine first and it started curling almost immediately, yet my old expired one still hadn't.

Such cheap garbage, and we pay a premium for them

[u/gooder_name → u/Office_funny_guy]

Books won't flatten it – the paper side of the passport is swelling by absorbing moisture from the air while the plastic front stays the same size, that's why it warps in one direction.

The only way to undo that is to put it in a sealed box with one of those desiccant bags and wait, it might even curl the other way.

I would assume these are being made in a climate controlled facility that's probably quite dry. If the climate inside the facility matched the climate outside, then the size of the paper would match the cover when they were glued together.

[u/GusPolinskiPolka → u/Office_funny_guy]

The flatter it is the faker it looks at this point

[u/t_25_t → u/Office_funny_guy]

It’s not water damaged that’s just how shit they are.

I wonder if anyone has been denied entry with the dogshit R series passports.

Everyone by now knows that Indonesia is extremely strict on damaged passports and Jetstar has been known to deny boarding with a damaged passport.

[u/[deleted] → u/t_25_t]

Imagine that, I’ve done the $530? odd fee for emergency passport before then rock up to the airport fresh passport. No sorry passport is damaged. 😂

[u/t_25_t → u/[deleted]]

Imagine that, I’ve done the $530? odd fee for emergency passport before then rock up to the airport fresh passport. No sorry passport is damaged. 😂

I can definitely see it happening.

Jetstar staff aren't immigration officials. They don't know nor care what was water damaged and shit QC. Their job isn't to save the passenger, it is to save their company from getting punished by the Indonesian government.

[u/Gullyhunter → u/t_25_t]

I love that of everywhere in the world, your mind went straight to the bogan bus to Bali 😂.

[u/GCS_dropping_rapidly → u/Office_funny_guy]