Bank Branch Verification Process Overrides Valid Government ID
A customer presenting a valid enhanced driver's license was still required to show phone-based text verification at a bank branch, and pushback led to an unprofessional response from a supervisor. This highlights rigid identity-verification workflows that don't account for already-sufficient physical ID.
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