Thursday, 13 September 2007

On govt efficiency

DH applied for an SSN over two months ago. He was told in a letter given to him at time of application, in writing no less, that it would take four weeks to issue.

DH got his SSN three days ago. A day later he got a letter saying his SSN would be issued within about two weeks..... (love how precise that is!) Admittedly the letter was dated 31 August, but even so it took 10 days, not that far off two weeks, to travel approximately 2.5 miles to get to us! What on earth was it doing in the mean time? Holidaying in Havana? Hanging around waiting for the Official Stamp of the Issuing Officer to be brought out of the safe? Waiting in a back office for some poor monkey to fold it up and put it in an envelope?

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