I thought Italy was the land of bureaucracy.
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I think that was the eighth of the Twelve Labours of Astérix. ;-)
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Douze_Travaux_d%27Ast%C3%A9rix
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I thought Italy was the land of bureaucracy.
An overseas company wants a certificate for my company. I need to go to a specific office to get it and then scan it. I could get the same document online, but it wouldn't be signed. However, it’s a certificate where I declare... so I would just sign it digitally anyway. But no, they want the paper version, scanned, and then sent to them.
It doesn't make any sense.
Bureaucracy is awful, everywhere.
I have a turntable that maybe will get delivered tomorrow?
It was sitting in customs in Hawaii since January 8th, shipped from Japan on the 7th.
I submitted a 5106 form to the CBP.gov website on December 31st, 2025. They didn't even reply to me until January 14th.
All told, I think I submitted five different 5106 forms (with very little difference between any of them IMHO; certainly the thing a sane human should be able to care less about, but alas I was not interacting with sane humans, but insane bureaucrats I guess) before the turntable was "released" from customs?
Here's hoping it actually functions when I accept delivery and unbox the thing! ^_^
Terry Gilliam's Brazil with Robert De Niro as Archibald "Harry" Tuttle circumventing bureaucratic red tape is inspirational and I think beck@ had an image of that character on his website once upon a time for all the right reasons. ;)
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I thought Italy was the land of bureaucracy.
An overseas company wants a certificate for my company. I need to go to a specific office to get it and then scan it. I could get the same document online, but it wouldn't be signed. However, it’s a certificate where I declare... so I would just sign it digitally anyway. But no, they want the paper version, scanned, and then sent to them.
It doesn't make any sense.
@stefano Another great Bureaucracy case here in Germany!
I had to go to the municipal office to apply for a new ID card, filled out a form online in their computer with a digital signature (why not), only to leave again. I then had to pick up the ID card, and activating it requires a PIN, which I will receive by mail because it is more secure.
But hey, I was able to make the appointment at the office online on their website.
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I thought Italy was the land of bureaucracy.
An overseas company wants a certificate for my company. I need to go to a specific office to get it and then scan it. I could get the same document online, but it wouldn't be signed. However, it’s a certificate where I declare... so I would just sign it digitally anyway. But no, they want the paper version, scanned, and then sent to them.
It doesn't make any sense.
@stefano I have an image of my signature which I paste on pdfs before sending back, to avoid wasting paper
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@stefano I have an image of my signature which I paste on pdfs before sending back, to avoid wasting paper
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@stefano Another great Bureaucracy case here in Germany!
I had to go to the municipal office to apply for a new ID card, filled out a form online in their computer with a digital signature (why not), only to leave again. I then had to pick up the ID card, and activating it requires a PIN, which I will receive by mail because it is more secure.
But hey, I was able to make the appointment at the office online on their website.
@raven I think the procedure is the same, here. I'll have to get there next week - I'll check 😆
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@stefano sent to them ... by snail mail, because fax is so unreliable 🤷🏻
@ricardo luckily, they have an online form (using https) 😆
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@Linkshaender @Ann_in_a @luca I used to do it, many years ago, but it's been a long time since I had to send a signed document this way
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I thought Italy was the land of bureaucracy.
An overseas company wants a certificate for my company. I need to go to a specific office to get it and then scan it. I could get the same document online, but it wouldn't be signed. However, it’s a certificate where I declare... so I would just sign it digitally anyway. But no, they want the paper version, scanned, and then sent to them.
It doesn't make any sense.
@stefano The license for one of the software programs I use must be printed, signed, placed in an envelope, and mailed to the research group at a university in Germany; they don't accept faxes or PDFs, only the original. At least they don't require a seal with a ring stamp.
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@stefano The license for one of the software programs I use must be printed, signed, placed in an envelope, and mailed to the research group at a university in Germany; they don't accept faxes or PDFs, only the original. At least they don't require a seal with a ring stamp.
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@unoacademy grazie, inizio a esplorare
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@psicologo
Benvenuto nel Fediverso!
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@treleonora grazie. Vedo che scrivi dal server Bida, mi aveva attirato... poi però ho pensato: "Forse per l'Ordine è troppo" ahah
