Ask Lemmy

Yeah, you can just request it from my council here in Melbourne as well and they'll do it. You can ask for a courtesy collection or say that it was missed.

Nobody requested any proof of my claim, they didn't even reply or confirm they were going to do it- they just did it.

Yeah I mean, it would cost them way more to verify that stuff than to just pick the bin up. You've also got to remember that garbage collection is a public health issue, especially in a large city, as well as an environmental one.

They also didn't care that my name isn't listed as a resident of the address I gave.

How would they verify that though? There's no such thing* as a "list of residents". They don't have access to things like elector rolls or driver's license databases and even then those wouldn't be fully complete. They have property title records but those don't show all residents and are useless for renters.

I think you're just surprised by something working by the honour system, because so many things in Aus require you to prove beyond the shadow of a doubt, like Centrelink. But more interactions with the government should be set up like this. We spend way more money trying to catch "doll bludgers" than we get back.