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- From: evansmp@uhura.aston.ac.uk (Mark Evans)
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- Subject: Re: Young Persons Railcard
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.103811.22168@aston.ac.uk>
- Date: 22 Jan 93 10:38:11 GMT
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- Ceri Hopkins (cah@cs.bham.ac.uk) wrote:
- : >>>>> On 20 Jan 93 18:01:43 GMT, benha@castle.ed.ac.uk (Ben Hambidge) said:
- :
- : Ben> A friend sent off for one while he was at school, with an
- : Ben> official letter from the headmaster saying he was at school with
- : Ben> his dat of birth on it. My friend filled out the application with
- : Ben> his DoB a year before it should have been, and sent it off.
- : Ben> No-one at ISIC noticed trhe discrepancy, and he used it as over
- : Ben> 18 age proof. Genuine card though.
- :
- : It is also possible to alter the card after receiving it. Depending on
- : year of birth and the handwriting of the person who completed the card
- : it can *slash* years off your age.
-
- And if the ink hasn't soaked into the plastic, before you peal the top
- layer off.
- It's more difficult to alter than the standard NUS card.
- :
- : The example I'm thinking about is someone using an ISIC card to claim
- : to be under 26 and a student to get cheap rail tickets in France.
- : Person in question was miffed about being a student and still not
- : being able to get cheap fares.
-
- British rail do not accept ISIC cards, NUS cards, other SU cards, university
- cards, university library cards, etc as proof of student status.
- The ONLY proof they will accept is a letter (possibly has to be handwritten)
- by your head of department.
- (or at least the policy at New Street is that, some BR employees, e.g.
- those who have been students, will accept standard student ID's)
- :
- : My experience in Germany a number of years ago was that you would have
- : to convince people of the validity of the ISIC card as indication of
- : student status. An NUS card and the same spiel worked just as well,
- : making the ISIC card worthless.
-
- I have dicovered one use for it, you need it to buy cheap airline tickets,
- but then you buy the card at the same time as the tickets..
- :
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