IDENTITY CRISIS / The Sunday Mail, 14 May 2006

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Norman Silvester
"THE Royal Mail have been banned from handling passports in a bid to cut the number being stolen and sold on the black market. Posties have lost the delivery contract as civil servants admit 600,000 British passports are missing - with the Royal Mail losing up to 55,000 every year. Police say stolen passports are changing hands for up to £10,000."