Things that drive me crazy: people who knee-jerk use the words bureaucrat and bureaucracy to mean things we all self-evidently despise. I know I have said this before.
Without paying the tenner that the post office wanted to check my passport application form was properly filled in (four questions: what is your name, address, previous passport number, signature); or even the fiver they ask to make you less scared they'll lose your mail, I sent off my old passport on Thursday last week and got a new one on Tuesday this week. Obviously you want to cut waste; obviously some things are tedious; obviously some things go wrong; but do people really not get that most things in Britain work well by any rational standard?*
* Yes
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I did pay the post office to do the checking thing yesterday, and was pleased I had: apparently when the passport people say they need to see both of your eyes on the photo, they also mean your eye brows. Mine were beneath my fringe...
As a bureaucrat, I applaud your faith.
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