Almost 600 passports or supporting documents were mislaid last year, more than double the number lost four years ago Anthony Devlin/PAThe number of passports lost in the post has more than doubled in the past four years, figures obtained by The Times show. Almost 600 passports or supporting documents were sent to the wrong address or completely disappeared last year compared with 248 four years ago. Since 2006 nearly 4,500 passports or supporting documents have suffered a similar fate, a freedom of information request reveals. A spokeswoman for Cifas, a fraud prevention charity, said: “Your passport is a valuable document that contains important personal information, information that can be used to commit identity fraud against you if it falls into…

Source: The Times October 02, 2016 23:00 UTC