Originally Posted by GUWonder
[And, for example, if the non-Schengen Swiss don't care to look at anything more than my passport cover, then that's their own business. And whether I like it or not, the Swiss should have whatever policies and practices that they want in that regard.]
Do they actually bother to look at your passport cover?
I must have crossed the German-Swiss, French-Swiss, and Italian-Swiss borders at least 100 times in the past 4 years by car and never once has anybody asked to see my passport in either direction.