You don't have the password, can't answer the secret questions, and want access to the account? Anybody can forge photo ID sent via fax, I'm glad Yahoo's doing a good job of protecting user accounts.
The questions were set years ago. Though documents can be forged, there have to be other methods to get your rightful account back if you are indeed the owner and there's something messed up with the secret questions. The account isn't on its own accord, it belongs to a _person_. What if a person is in an accident and has amnesia? They forfeit their online identities? Ridiculous....
No there doesn't. Yahoo has no way of knowing that you are actually the owner. Nor are they obligated to go out of the way to verify ownership (which would pretty much require in-person verification, and be expensive, and even then that only works if the user signed up with personal information matching their real life identity).
> They forfeit their online identities?
Yes, that is how online accounts work. If you don't like it then use a more expensive email service with such features, or take better care of your passwords by writing them down. If things were ran your way, everybody's email would be accessible to every little Mitnick crawling around out there.