Originally Posted by
CDTraveler
I have a handicapped parking permit. To get it, I took the form to one of the specialists I see, she completed it and I mailed to the DMV, who in turn mailed me my parking permit. Cost: 1 first class stamp. Every state has something similar: a form to be completed by a licensed physician and a permit given out by the existing government agency which deals with motor vehicles and no additional bureaucracy was created for the permit process.
So we already have a useless bureaucracy dealing with air travel. It's pretty simple: you get a form, take it to your mental health provider, s/he fills it out and you mail it to TSA with a picture of the service animal. They send you a placard which you hang from the service animal.
Other than training a few service animals to open the mail and run a lamination machine, we already have what we need.