Should I send this email?

[Deleted]

Hi Passport people (or robot that will ignore this),

I am a UK citizen living in the USA. One of the reasons I moved here was I just got tired of ridiculous things in UK life.
I just tired to apply for a new passport. I went to the correct site and watched the video. I downloaded the full colour version of the C1 form which I have to print in black and white. Ah ha! I thought - good try, but I know how to use Photoshop. So this attempt at stopping me from doing a simple job by making it difficult for no reason was easy enough for me to beat.

However, I was foolish to think it would be so easy! There was the password! What password, you ask? The one I need to print the form. You know the one - the one that's not mentioned anywhere on your website or your notes.

How can I print the form when I don't know the password? I cant!

I would greatly appreciate it if you could let me know how to get this form without needing to be a hacker. And also, what other bizarre hoops am I going to have to jump through? I like to be prepared. Do I need a certain size hat to wear while filling it in? Are all photos to be taken by a french person otherwise they are null and void?

Look, lets save us all some trouble. Should I just buy a ticket back to the UK, walk to that place where you can get a passport on the same day, then fly back again? I mean, it will probably be quicker right? Plus less stressful, and probably less expensive. After all, I am bound to need some medication for the damage to my mind at some point in this procedure and I will have to pay a lot of money for that in the USA.

Actually, its probably silly to ask. I only have 4 months left on my passport, and if you respond within the next 4 months, that would be so shocking I would probably die. Oh! That would solve the problem!

Anyway, I fully expect this email to either a) go nowhere or b) get lost or c) get ignored. I certainly don't expect a response - why, that would be as silly as asking the general public to print a colour form in black and white and at the same time making it password protected and not giving out the password.
But on the off chance you are reading this, please be assured that I am not angry with you, the person reading it. I just put aside an hour or so to get my passport renewed, and as that is impossible, decided to write this email instead.

Yours "not disappointedly because this is exactly the sort of stupid crap that made me leave in the first place-edly"

Reeve

PS, don't bother telling me that its my computers fault for it needing a password. It isnt. And we both know it.

[OscarQ]

Absolutely. It is imperative that you send that email.

[One Girl In All The World]

Yes, please do.

[basilosaurus]

Indeed!

[curmudgeon]

Yes.

[MrsAxilla]

Good lord! Whatever you do, don't send it from your own computer or use your real name! The State dept is paranoid and has no sense of humor. Hello, no fly list! Send it to "letters to the editor" instead.

[IIOY]

May 17, 2012 20:08:53 GMT -5 @reeve said:

Actually, its probably silly to ask. I only have 4 months left on my passport, and if you respond within the next 4 months, that would be so shocking I would probably die. Oh! That would solve the problem!

This is my favorite part.

[Deleted]

REeve-
In the past my MIL has mailed us an application and DH I think has gone to the consulate to pick an application up.

[shadow]

I do know a French photographer if need be ;-)