This may not be what’s intended as a Professional Actuarial Topic, but I would want to use Linked In to contact another actuary whose contact information is not available from the Actuarial Directory.
I, somewhat reluctantly, uploaded a government issued photo id, months ago. Nothing has happened. I can find no way to contact them for further information. Some online searches say my situation is not unique, but provide little hope that there’s a way forward.
There were some suggestions that if I knew someone with a paid Linked-in account, they might have a way to get through on my behalf, but even those people weren’t optimistic.
[tan, not professional]I seemed to have lost the passwords for the frequent flyers accounts on Southwest for my wife and me, and no longer have access to the e-mail accounts or phone numbers attached to them. The only way to regain access is to upload a government issued photo-id. Not gonna do that with Southwest. At least with Linked In the Internet told me the process, involving a third party, was safe. We offered to show government issued photo-id to Southwest at the airport. Not good enough.
And the real kicker: they won’t even delete our existing accounts or let us create new accounts, since we have accounts. [/tan]
Perhaps the new account approach would work with Linked In. This issue started at least 5 months ago, and I can’t remember if I tried it. At least with Linked In, I could probably put it some bogus information like a wrong birth date so they wouldn’t recognize me as restricted. With Southwest, I absolutely don’t want to do anything that might interfere with me flying.
