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Udostoverenie Lichnosti (Certification of Identity)

identity certification

also: удостоверение личности

The formal certification of a recipient's identity and signature, obtained at the police station (for a fee of ten to fifteen kopecks) before a registered money packet could be released -- required by Imperial Russian postal procedure even when, as the narrator complains, the postmaster already knows the recipient personally.

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Before a registered money packet could be released, the recipient had to have his identity and signature certified -- typically at the local police station, for a fee of ten to fifteen kopecks -- even when, as here, the postmaster already knows the man personally.

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