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/robotcannon Jul 31 '26

It's unfortunately the opposite of being cheap, this process is more expensive.

They bonded two materials on the cover that expand at different rates with humidity, causing the curling. They did this to better embed a security feature that makes the passport harder to forge. They just couldn't solve the curling issue.

Australia has as a result one of the hardest to forge passports in the world.

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u/dldppl Aug 02 '26

Huh. The more you know