The residency thing is kind of dependent on area. I don’t think that it would fly in my current city/state, but long long ago I was a librarian for a small city inside of Detroit. The library issued cards to anyone who had their legal name on a piece of mail delivered to an address within that city’s limits – trying to be very accessible to everyone in a population that had a lot of immigrants. It was problematic because the school district would accept a library card as proof of residence, and if one was enrolled in the school system, then you could use the associated paperwork as a springboard to something – details escape me. Maybe it was a driver’s license? Anyhow, there was a lot of pressure on the library to stop being so lax in issuing cards, and the library board was fighting back with “stop accepting library cards as legal documents”. Anyhow, long winded thoughts related to what can be done (or used to be done) with a piece of delivered mail.
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