To send any packet in australia you need your 100 points of ID too.
I believe it is the same in the UK.
Reason is that people started blowing up planes. Postal items go on planes. No one wants planes blown up and identification and barcoded parcels can help identify whose goods were on the plane.

sorry I am out of date....this applied a few years ago but they have changed it now  to in Australia

Same same Thai people, thats why you see them showing their id cards.
Be thankful you werent asked to write your name and address on the envelope/parcel same same Thai people.

How odd. I send letters to the US and UK monthly and always register them, I'm never asked for ID and never have been, must be a local thing.

Nine out of ten of these requirements are never asked of me.

I can remember over at TVF reading things like this and thinking "That's funny, I have been here for years and have done that same thing many times and have never been asked that"

Have done countless border crossings and have never been asked to prove I had money on return.  Have been asked for things a couple of times and just looked dumb and said "Mai mee" and they let it slide.

My wife was getting the registration for our Isuzu changed from CR to CM years ago.  My ex had forgotten to sign one of the many pages of document.
Girl behind the counter said to my wife, rather than send it all the way back to CR and wait for it to return, "do you think you could copy her signature" ?

FFS, that would never happen in Australia !      

But you have to laugh, waved down a song tell, driver said not going your way, get the one behind. Yes they know me. I was heading for big c. so there you are.
Want to check on me.
The eyes are out there.

I'm glad you said that, I was getting worried that I was the only person who wasn't feeling unwelcome here, I was feeling left out and unloved on TVF because I wasn't feeling unwelcome - how's that for a complex.