YOUR SAY: Service NSW bureaucratic idiocy stifles the lives of those trying to abide

Last week via Service NSW (Albury), I attempted to register a trailer. Nothing grand, just a small trailer and only used for trips to the local waste management facility.

After five hours of trying to wade through registration numbers, year of purchase for the trailer, various code numbers that must be prominently displayed on the trailer, full names plus multiple identification and verifications etc - you guessed it - the trailer remains unregistered.

We never made it to the inspection stage because Service NSW required my passport - in addition to my licence and Medicare cards - to verify my middle name.

This form of bureaucratic idiocy imposed on those trying to be law-abiding is stifling our lives and serves to make NSW much less appealing than it would otherwise be.

In the meantime, my five hours with Service NSW is time I shall never get back.

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