Residence permit cards through mail?

[Beep_Boop]

A couple of weeks ago I applied for a new RP card. Yesterday, I received a letter from the police in a regular envelope. I opened the envelope and found two pieces of paper, one of them had the RP card taped to it and the other had the appeal instructions.
I'm genuinely surprised. When I got my last RP card, a couple of months ago, I received a letter from the police telling to go and pick it up by person. However, this time, they sent the actual card by mail. It was even more odd because the envelope wasn't a secure envelope or a registered delivery; it was a regular envelope to my mailbox. Very careless and insecure.

Has there been a change to the procedure? I don't remember reading anything about on Migri or Polisii.

[sky2]

I don't know about residence permit but I recently received the ID card by ordinary post and I was surprised too. I thought they would at least send by registered post.

[Nimi]

A couple of weeks ago I applied for a new RP card. Yesterday, I received a letter from the police in a regular envelope. I opened the envelope and found two pieces of paper, one of them had the RP card taped to it and the other had the appeal instructions.
I'm genuinely surprised. When I got my last RP card, a couple of months ago, I received a letter from the police telling to go and pick it up by person. However, this time, they sent the actual card by mail. It was even more odd because the envelope wasn't a secure envelope or a registered delivery; it was a regular envelope to my mailbox. Very careless and insecure.

Has there been a change to the procedure? I don't remember reading anything about on Migri or Polisii.

With the high influx of refugees, they will prefer dealing with cases like yours by post rather than the physical appearance, it will save them a lot time to physically treat refugees cases. So don't panic, mails in Finland are more secured than somewhere in Africa or the troubling part of Middle East!

[Nimi]

I did receive my ID card by post mail during May, 2015 and was also having an option to pick it up from some Kioski closer to me also.

[Beep_Boop]

So don't panic, mails in Finland are more secured than somewhere in Africa or the troubling part of Middle East!

Thanks. I really needed someone to teach me about Posti after all these years.

You must be confusing panic with legitimate concern. We already don't send credit cards and the PIN code in the same letter, we don't send passports with regular mail, jesus we don't even send anything worth more than 50 euros with non-registered mail. So why should we send important documents such as RP card and ID card with regular mail?
The other issue is the insecure mail envelop itself. It's not tamper-evident, it doesn't have content-obscuring patterns, and it's paper-thin. It has the 3 textbook bad envelop design attributes.

It's completely reasonable to ask the police to at least use the same security level used when you send a 50-euro item by mail. The costs for registered mail (in Finland) and secure envelopes are quite reasonable, and I have no problem with adding a couple of euros on the card's cost if it's gonna protect my privacy quite a bit more.

[downhand]

So don't panic, mails in Finland are more secured than somewhere in Africa or the troubling part of Middle East!

Thanks. I really needed someone to teach me about Posti after all these years.

You must be confusing panic with legitimate concern. We already don't send credit cards and the PIN code in the same letter, we don't send passports with regular mail, jesus we don't even send anything worth more than 50 euros with non-registered mail. So why should we send important documents such as RP card and ID card with regular mail?
The other issue is the insecure mail envelop itself. It's not tamper-evident, it doesn't have content-obscuring patterns, and it's paper-thin. It has the 3 textbook bad envelop design attributes.

It's completely reasonable to ask the police to at least use the same security level used when you send a 50-euro item by mail. The costs for registered mail (in Finland) and secure envelopes are quite reasonable, and I have no problem with adding a couple of euros on the card's cost if it's gonna protect my privacy quite a bit more.

Same here, got the ID card through mail, which can even be used as a travel document. I want an explanation for this.

[Piet]

It strikes me weird too.
My sister had to get her new passport (send by registered mail) and identify herself before she could get it from the post, the problem was that for identifying she needed the passport because she had to return her old one when applying for a new one

Problem was solved by opening the package and use the new passport to identify... only because the postal guy was helpful... just imagine you have the regular drone working there...(and she does not have a driving license so no ID option there).