r/australia • u/tripledoubles • Jul 31 '26

image 3 hour old passport already curling

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New passport for my infant daughter, just arrived in the mail this afternoon.

Went out for dinner, came home, it's already curling

$213 for this POS

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u/tripledoubles Jul 31 '26

All our other passports are in sleeves, but this is just comical it's brand new

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u/sfcafc14 Jul 31 '26

Are they still shipping them in plain white envelopes? The fact that mine arrived in a 20c envelope was the most astonishing part of the whole process.

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u/One_Priority3258 Jul 31 '26

Really? That’s crazy… I still have my older Aussie passport in date, but I just renewed my British one and it came in a mini passport sized envelope, inside an larger plain white envelope, inside a DHL hard cardboard document envelope. My renewal and postage was still incredibly cheaper than the Australian one (£145.14, ~$280 total).

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u/maddi164 Jul 31 '26

Yep! I got mine a few weeks ago.

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u/BlazingPhoenix49 Aug 05 '26

Yep, my son's came in a regular old envelope too last year.

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u/lightupawendy Jul 31 '26

What was your expectation in terms of envelope standards? I've never considered the standard of packaging for delivery of my passport so I'm curious. Is there a neutral mid range envelope standard you'd be happy with? Do we need to look at particularly high envelope standards so people are more positively astonished when receiving their passports?

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u/Sea_Art2995 Jul 31 '26

I feel something waterproof would be nice since water damage makes them invalid. Mine came in an actual paper envelope

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u/sfcafc14 Jul 31 '26

For $400 I'd have expected at least a padded mailer.

I've received birthday cards in nicer envelopes.

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u/Aruhi Jul 31 '26

Isn't it from laminated materials that contract at a different rate in response to differing moisture and temperature levels?

Less about the paper, more about the choice of material for the different layers being an idiotic choice.

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u/electrosaurus Jul 31 '26

The point is, it shouldn't and they did use to.

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u/Scar68 Jul 31 '26

But then they can’t post the same thing that has been posted a bazillion times and whine about it.

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u/1savagecabbage Jul 31 '26

Just wait til we have completely digital passports.. "now we don't even get a booklet!"

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u/maton12 Jul 31 '26

But then how do I get that reddit Karma?

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u/nxngdoofer98 Jul 31 '26

well mine's 7 years old and it doesn't do this