My wife and myself are in a business partnership and we tried to open an account at Staples.
It was rejected because "my wife was not on the electoral roll"! I asked the guy in the store to explain to them that there must be a mistake but the people in Doncaster were adamant.
My wife voted in this years elections and she has credit cards and is on our mortgages. I phoned the local electoral roll officer and she confirmed that my wife was on the electoral roll.
I then phoned Staples at Doncaster and it was a weird experience. I don't think they understood the concept of "address". I explained that our present business and home address was one and the same. I felt it was weird that the application form asked for previous address - there was none of this "if you've lived at your current address for less than 3 years" stuff.
The Doncaster Staples person asked if she could call me back. I said she could. I also asked, given that I'd explained everything slowly and clearly, what the problem was at this stage. She said it looks like it was "something to do with the address" but couldn't be any clearer!
We are getting more 3rd World every day!