Passport Check and Send - Dont bother!!!

[cptsideways]

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.