"magwitch" wrote in message
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Mine took several days, three to be exact, all done by post. Anyway as
it's only renewed every 10 years, unless you are filling up the pages with
visa stamps, quite difficult to do in this era of the EU, surely you can
organise your life to take this once in 10 yearly event.

To be fair, AH does say he spends most weeks flying around on business, so
for him the posh solution is probably appropriate, once every ten years. The
system works quite well - slowish for us proles who don't actually need it
in a hurry due to forward planning, a panic option for people who get it
wrong, and an expensive option for the very few people who really need it.

cheers,
clive