Have to share this with you to restore your faith in OSPost and British Passports.

Having had the misfortune of losing my British Passport after 3 months in OZ I set about getting a C1 filled in and finding a signatory for the form.Took my forms off to Kawana PO on the Sunshine coast on 17th March and off it went.Thinking it would take about 4-6 weeks the latter due to it being a replaccement for lost passport and to my surprise,the postie delivered it this morning 2 weeks exactly.How good is that ?

Have to say that while I wasn't impressed (as usual) with the Aus Post end of the operation, it only took two weeks to get my UK passport processed in Feb

Gobsmacked I was !

Although they go to NZ now I think pretty soon ALL (worldwide applications) UK passports are getting 'done' back in the UK...is that right???

Hadn't heard that but I suppose its possible. Not that long since they cut down the number of places for processing worldwide like Aus goes to NZ, a lot of eastern Europe go to Turkey I believe, and I think the US go to Canada - much less centres than there used to be anyway.

Pretty good. I know aussie passports come through real quick too.

Had a weird expereince with passport photos at Kawana, one of the sons is very blonde and they kept getting photos of him looking like he was haunting something, then he looked like a stoner Photos were utterly useless, then they wanted to charge me for 2 sets of useless photos.