Just applied for a new passport. Applied online on Saturday, posted my old passport back on Sunday and it arrived at the Pasport Office on Tuesday. PO sent my new passport to me on Friday, so I was well impressed. Fast forward to now. According to the minimal information on the tracking site, the passport was due for delivery today and was picked up by the driver at 07.30. I was home waiting all day. Nothing. JUst checked on the tracking site and it says “Unable to deliver” with a photo of a black square. Of course stuff happens, maybe the driver had too many stops and ran out of time, but the pure mendacious dishonesty of pretending he’d tried to deliver something when he did absolutely freakin nothing of the sort really pisses me off.
Looking at reviews on Trustpilot it seems that this is par for the course. Amazon, Hermes, Yodel, every delivery service manages to bring me stuff, but when its sonething important and not some cheap Chinese tat from the internet, the PO uses TNT. I can only assume it’s owned by a Tory donor.