Showing id when at thai post office

[ubonr1971]

Its my understanding that one has to show some form of id when posting registered mail letters. 

 

What about if I send a normal letter thats not registered. Do I have to show id?

 

thanks

[Tayaout]

Yes.

[topt]

Seems to depend......In Pattaya at the Soi (13/2?) main office the last time I sent a registered letter I had to show ID but when I sent one last Saturday to the UK the teller did not ask.........

[CharlieH]

Anything that goes international requires the ID. (technically)

 

[johng]

I sent a registered letter to the UK last month  they didn't ask for ID...the time before that they said  they needed to see my passport but excepted  Thai drivers licence, time before that they  would except only a passport ..I had to go home and get it !

[impulse]

What's today, Tuesday?

 

[BritManToo]

54 minutes ago, ubonr1971 said:

Its my understanding that one has to show some form of id when posting registered mail letters. 

Posted 'recorded delivery' to the UK last week.

All they wanted was the money.

[ivor bigun]

The wife is always with me ,they never ask her . ????

[NE1]

 

I sent a single page document , they watched me put it in the envelope that I had purchased from them .

Still had to show I.D. This was domestic post.

[Youlike]

On 11/5/2019 at 1:13 PM, CharlieH said:

Anything that goes international requires the ID. (technically)

 

I never had to do that.

[Orton Rd]

More idiocy posing as security

[Deli]

they asked me for an ID and I didn't have one on me. Bought a stamp and put the letter in the mail box...

Amazing Thailand

[Colabamumbai]

Since the early 1970s most post offices required ID from foreigners for international mail due to drugs being shipped overseas. 

[stephehr]

yes for both so they say but as stated it depends on the office

[bbi1]

On 11/5/2019 at 1:13 PM, CharlieH said:

Anything that goes international requires the ID. (technically)

 

Same with sending things within Thailand, they always ask for ID.

[bbi1]

28 minutes ago, Colabamumbai said:

Since the early 1970s most post offices required ID from foreigners for international mail due to drugs being shipped overseas. 

What about for Thai people? I'm sure no Thai people have ever done that because they're all great honourable citizens,

[kingstonkid]

It is not just foreigners that require ID Thais also have to produce ID.  What confuses me is having to show ID to get a monthly pass for the BTS 

[Denim]

I was told at our post office that ID is only required for items bigger than a standard envelope.

 

They never ask me for any and I am in there every day.

[theoldgit]

''Grammer police'' post removed.

[cnx355]

I live in Chiangmai and for regular letters domestic ou or oversea they ask nothing.

 

As a proof, you can buy  stamps and post the letter in a mailbox .

 

For regisered and EMS and Package , I need to show my ID

[Danthai]

Same I'd required in Chiang Mai.

[essox essox]

On 11/5/2019 at 4:58 PM, ivor bigun said:

The wife is always with me ,they never ask her . ????

probably koz she not sending letter !!!????....

[Guderian]

Is this a spoof thread?

 

I've been sending registered and non-registered mail to the UK from four different post offices in Pattaya for the last 15 years and have never been asked for ID, nor has anybody else I know here.

[Retfed50]

Up here in Khon Kaen, never had to show ID when mailing a letter. I do send out small parcels from my wife's business and am required to show ID. They accept my pink foreigner ID card.

[TKDfella]

I always use registered mail service at the main Udorn PO and ID always asked for. In addition to that I was told the return address must also be on the mail.

[Tony125]

On 11/7/2019 at 6:07 AM, Orton Rd said:

More idiocy posing as security

Really? I worked for US  Postal Service ( not window clerk) but after 9-11 you have to show ID if mailing a package/envelope of 16 oz that goes by air as it might contain an explosive. Mostly they just ask for ID for anything.  They will not take a letter at (the widow) or deliver some letters from mail boxes if no return address. Some contained Anthrax in the past.

Edited November 8, 2019 by Tony125

[Bangkok Barry]

2 hours ago, kingstonkid said:

What confuses me is having to show ID to get a monthly pass for the BTS 

 

That's a safeguard against money laundering, although I don't know how. I also doubt that anyone spending a few hundred baht on transport would choose that method to launder hundreds of thousands of baht, but Thai logic says it's a possibility.

[Bangkok Barry]

12 minutes ago, Tony125 said:

Really? I worked for US  Postal Service ( not window clerk) but after 9-11 you have to show ID if mailing a package/envelope of 16 oz that goes by air as it might contain an explosive. Mostly they just ask for ID for anything.  They will not take a letter at (the widow) or deliver some letters from mail boxes if no return address. Some contained Anthrax in the past.

Thailand requires ID to send anything. Except when they don't, which is the way every 'official' organisation works here. No-one knows the rules and/or makes up their own. A friend of mine was asked for ID to send a Christmas card to the UK. I doubt that was a terrorist threat. It's all about control, nothing else, with logic and common sense completely absent. Soon we'll need ID to get a haircut.

[cracker1]

On 11/5/2019 at 1:08 PM, Tayaout said:

Yes.

Just buy a stamp and put your mail in the Post Box. 

No need to speak with any staff. 

[Burma Bill]

There appears to be many variations throughout Thailand on posting mail. From my experience here in rural Khon Kaen Province, my local post office, which I regularly use, NEVER asks for any ID for any mail other than for a packet or parcel. Letters sent by ordinary, registered (international) or EMS (within Thailand only) post are accepted and processed without ID. All that IS required is my name and address on the reverse side of the envelope. It appears to be so much easier living "out in the sticks".