Sorry to chime in from outside, but why is checking the address so important?
How many people in the UK do not have some form of government ID (passport, drivers licence, etc., I know the UK is not big on ID cards)?

By the way, Couchsurfing has a friendly way of verifying addresses: they send you a postcard (that can be recycled as stickers) with a unique code that you need to type in on the website.

Best regards,
Bence


On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 1:35 PM, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton@gmail.com> wrote:
On 20 November 2012 12:30, Gordon Joly <gordon.joly@pobox.com> wrote:
> This is all a bit exclusive. Widening membership should not be down PayPal
> or electoral roll or having a bank account (since this would exclude people
> aged 17 years old and under).

You can have a bank account when under 18. I think my bank let me get
my own account (rather than my mum having an account in my name) when
I was 13. Obviously, you can't get any kind of credit facility (which
includes standard debit cards), but that's not an issue for us.

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