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Letter: Letter

Published 22 May 1999

From Rob Lee

Being an expat, I received a letter from the US Department of Treasury (DOT)
asking me to register any foreign bank accounts on an enclosed form. The letter
went on to offer an apology if I had already registered using any earlier form,
but the DOT now required that this latest form should be used instead, since it
was Y2K compliant.

How can a piece of paper be Y2K compliant? Would the earlier form have
self-destructed on 1 January 2000?

Houston, Texas

Issue no. 2187 published 22 May 1999

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