> If you get X passport applications per day submissions and throughput fluctuate and the quoted times are obviously estimates based on what the government has

> If you get X passport applications per day submissions and throughput fluctuate and the quoted times are obviously estimates based on what the government has decided is a reasonable expected value for their target opex spend given historic application rates. I don't see why it's surprising that they chose some target timeline and staffed accordingly. > why not have 20 production facilities spread around the country ? because that's horribly inefficient and there's not point in spending resources to bring down a perfectly reasonable renewal time for a once-a-decade process