Passport Check and Send - Dont bother!!!
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With 4 weeks till I travelled & a passport to renew, I thought I'd use the Post Office check & send service....PO & IPS Websites & info given suggest 2 weeks turnaround: So after 2 weeks you can ring & check its progress if its not arrived.
Applied & done at the PO on the 8th, not received by the Passport office till the 12th!! & as of today the 19th they've not even looked at it yet! So I now have to pay the upgrade fee for 24hr turnaround to get it in time.
So thats the £80 for the post office for doing feck all not in a hurry & now another £56 to pay for the 48hr service.
Applied & done at the PO on the 8th, not received by the Passport office till the 12th!! & as of today the 19th they've not even looked at it yet! So I now have to pay the upgrade fee for 24hr turnaround to get it in time.
So thats the £80 for the post office for doing feck all not in a hurry & now another £56 to pay for the 48hr service.
Think yourself lucky.
We have to apply for British passports from the embassy in Paris. It's a fookin' black hole there!
Once sent you have no way of telling how long it will take, and, although they charge about €40 to deliver your passport to your house by courier, they rarely do, instead sending it to the British Embassy in Luxembourg for us to collect - even though we paid for courier delivery!
Oh, and the passport itself costs about £120 PLUS the delivery that doesn't happen! The
s.
We have to apply for British passports from the embassy in Paris. It's a fookin' black hole there!
Once sent you have no way of telling how long it will take, and, although they charge about €40 to deliver your passport to your house by courier, they rarely do, instead sending it to the British Embassy in Luxembourg for us to collect - even though we paid for courier delivery!
Oh, and the passport itself costs about £120 PLUS the delivery that doesn't happen! The
s.I was told that you are paying a premium for the biddies at the post orifice to check the form tp ensure its filled in correctly- nothing more.
Add to that not trusting royal mail with important documents or paperwork, so Ive always done the same day renewal which takes a few hrs max.
Even my second passport (which you cant get using same day service) was on the doormat within 48hrs of the interview so once its in the system its a qiick process, its just getting into that system that is slow
Add to that not trusting royal mail with important documents or paperwork, so Ive always done the same day renewal which takes a few hrs max.
Even my second passport (which you cant get using same day service) was on the doormat within 48hrs of the interview so once its in the system its a qiick process, its just getting into that system that is slow
About a year ago I was in a queue at the PO and the guy at the front was going mental. His Passport app had been returned as there were errors on the form, he was complaining to the PO that he had paid for check and send, and they hadn’t checked properly. The woman just said ‘check and send doesn’t guarantee that we will check adequately’, he asked for his check and send money back but was refused, and then when he submitted the corrected form she asked if he would like to use check and send? He was seriously pi**ed off.
leyorkie said:
Just a reminder :- a passport can be renewed anytime from 6 months before expiry and the unexpired time gets added to the new passport. You can avoid the last minute panic. Sorry as this is no help to you for another 10 years but spread the word and let others avoid the panic.
It's now up to 9 months before expiry, as i'm currently looking to renew mine while there are no imminent trips5potTurbo said:
Think yourself lucky.
We have to apply for British passports from the embassy in Paris. It's a fookin' black hole there!
Once sent you have no way of telling how long it will take, and, although they charge about €40 to deliver your passport to your house by courier, they rarely do, instead sending it to the British Embassy in Luxembourg for us to collect - even though we paid for courier delivery!
Oh, and the passport itself costs about £120 PLUS the delivery that doesn't happen! Thes.
not any more, I don't thinkWe have to apply for British passports from the embassy in Paris. It's a fookin' black hole there!
Once sent you have no way of telling how long it will take, and, although they charge about €40 to deliver your passport to your house by courier, they rarely do, instead sending it to the British Embassy in Luxembourg for us to collect - even though we paid for courier delivery!
Oh, and the passport itself costs about £120 PLUS the delivery that doesn't happen! The
s.we used to get ours right here in Düsseldorf at the consulate, only took about 3 days
now they go off to the UK
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