Is this the quickest ever standard passport renewal?

[LastNightMyPJsSavedMyLife]

I applied on online on Tuesday night and posted my old passport back to them on Wednesday after work (first class recorded delivery). New passport is being delivered today. So 4 days in total. Now that is gold standard service! Well done Liverpool passport office!

I think the 3 weeks cited is from the application date (and within that they build in the delay for the documents arriving and getting logged) - I was more asking to see how your dates compared to mine. Mine was approved and printed 7 days after the documents received date, so you're currently only one day beyond that. I expect you'll be fine (but I appreciate how worrying it is when you have travel booked!). Is there a mechanism for chasing up applications?

I’ve called them and they were generally useless to be honest. They said they had no way of telling how long it would take, it wasn’t possible to pay to change to a faster service and to just wait. Really stressed as we’ll lose a lot of money and it will mess up a family event.

I sent off 2 passports last Monday. One was received on Tues, one on Thurs, even though they were in the same envelope. Not heard anything since. We aren't travelling until May, so should be fine, but it hasn't been so super quick for us. Irritatingly I delayed applying because we were going away (in the UK, no passports needed) and I didn't want them to send the passports when we were away if it was super quick.