I laminated mine. Staples did not warn me not to and just did it. since the minimum sheet was 8x10 i asked anyone in line if they needed anything laminated, no other soc cards, but a few took me up on it for other things.
Only the DMV ever gave a shit that it was lamindated, and it wasn’t a no, it was just a you’re not supposed to do that and then they accepted it.
I’m not saying you should laminate it, you should not, but mostly placed DGAF
I have to restrain myself when someone tells me I have to follow some trivial arbitrary stupidity while the people who make those rules commit the most heinous crimes right in front of our faces while laughing about it.
“Well DMV person, I actually do know that it’s ‘not allowed’ and I knew it when I did it too. For you see, I do not give a single fuck about what I’m allowed or not allowed to do with a shitty little piece of paper that I own. So either accept it or don’t.”
Good luck with going back to the DMV after you wait in the line for social security to get a new card :)
Honestly, you can get away with quite a lot if you’re just nice to people. I always have good experiences with customer service and I feel like it’s because I try to be kind and to treat them like fellow individuals-also-just-trying-to-get-by-in-life.
It used to work all the time. Companies actually care about customer service ratings. In the past decade or some, there’s been a shift to customer service closing calls earlier and saving money. A lot of places either don’t have competition anymore or their parent company owns the competition so they don’t really worry so much about customer retention.
It really depends. If the individual you’re talking to is able to do something for you, it’s much more important what that individual perceives than how that company as a whole operates.
I agree entirely. Those agents with… well agency are becoming a bit more rare :)
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it wasn’t meant to be a national ID, but states pushed against issuing one, so had to use the closest thing everyone gets
This. It’s a national ID on a de facto basis and is very ill-suited for it, and not just because it’s made of paper instead of plastic.
just leave it in an envelope with your other important documents on file. i dont get why people carry it around
Have these people never had to take care of any sort of important document? Like how do you treat contracts or education certificates?
Education certificates? Those are mostly useless after you’ve got your first post-college job. And the majority of people have never and will never sign a contract where a paper copy will be required in the future.
My birth certificate is printed on blue American money paper and says “the Commonwealth of Virginia” on it. Doesn’t mention America anywhere.
I moved to Australia when I was 13. When I tried to get my driver’s licence it was my only ID, along with a military ID that has a picture of me at 6 years old (passport was expired so they wouldn’t accept it). The woman at the department of transport was like “is this real?” and laughed. She had to Google it before they allowed it. Then passed it around to all her co-workers so they could take a look at the weird American birth certificate.
When it was given to me as an adult it had weird oil stain like drops all over it. No idea what my parents did to it lol.
I had a passport once I kept in the topbox of my motorcycle during a camping trip. It also had a stick of butter in it for cooking. this went fine when the temperature was sub 20°C. On the return day it was hot as hell however. I pulled out my passport at the ferry and it was covered in butter. The desk lady was like, da fuck?
wait, was the butter in the passport or just the topbox? still wrapped in wax paper or is that why it was in the passport?
Both were in the top box, at the time it seemed like a good idea to have my lunch supplies readily available. It was still in the wrapper but when it melted some got out and spilled on my passport
You can laminate it. It says not to, but you can do it anyway.
I did 30 years ago and it’s never been an issue
I don’t think many people realize what a kick-the-can-down-the-road kind of failure the SSN now is as a concept, since it’s also being used as a kind of national ID. It’s part of the reason why identity theft against US citizens just gets easier and easier.
Before the 1980s, it was common not to even have a SSN before the age of 15 or so, since it was originally only to be used for financial purposes. It was government action against tax fraud which ultimately made it common to get one assigned effectively from birth: eventually the feds required a SSN for any child over 2 years of age named as a dependent for tax purposes.
But you definitely should never be carrying the card around with you.
Lol can you just put it in a hard plastic card collecting container? Like for Pokemon?
Nope, it’s an extremely nonstandard size because fuck you!
When I was in basic training back in the nineties, our mailing address for folks back home had our full social security number in it. For anyone to see.
My college ID had our social on it up until 2004
So dumb. My driver licenses had that
My card stays in my locked fireproof box. How often does one need to provide their Social Security card in public life? A couple of times per year, if that? Such a stupid thing to keep on your person. Why laminate something that should be kept put away for safe keeping?
because it’s an important document that you must keep in safe keeping? it does not expire like a passport, and it the premiere document to validate your identity (even though it was specifically designed to not do that)
it’s one of three documents demanded of you to verify your identity for job applications, getting back on voter rolls when you are suspiciously removed or proving citizenship when ice arrests you under suspicion of being too brown, getting a drivers license, getting a passport, and replacing it is expensive, time consuming, and difficult to prove if you need it. the real question is what justifies NOT laminating it?
Imagine living in a country that calls itself a first world country but doesn’t even issue ID cards to its citizens lol
If they gave us ID cards they’d have to let everyone vote who had one.
Can’t have that.
We have to demand ID and simultaneously make it have a time and fianancial cost in order to get one.
can’t you just memorize the number?
Yes, and for most things, just the memorized number will be fine, but for stuff like applying for govt programs, getting a job, or obtaining a passport, the actual physical card is needed, unless you have enough other forms of ID.
