lucy24 - 9:31 pm on Feb 26, 2013 (gmt 0)

so many things these days require Id with a recent one as evidence of residence

So print it out. The electronic version still has your name and address on it.

If courtroom TV is any indicator (this may or may not be true, obviously) the law has been slow to figure out that a printout of an e-mail is not the same as an e-mail. A few minutes with a good word processor, and...

Yes, you can make a fake computer file too. But it involves a lot more work. Any idiot can fake a printout.