Applied for our 8 week old DD's first passport using the one week fast track system a little over a week ago. We are due to go abroad next weekend.
The 7 days comes and goes with no sign of DD's passport. DH and I call the passport office who say they're still conducting checks. Apparently they want to contact our countersignature, but when he called them they've said that they need him to reply to their email... which it turns out they haven't yet sent. They're now saying they'll send him the email on Tuesday.
Now DH and I are panicking that with the bank holiday etc we won't get the passport by the time we're due to travel.
And yes, fully deserve the flaming I will get for not applying sooner. We have been in the fug of having our first newborn - late nights, no sleep, wondering what the hell we've done, wondering at how gorgeous she is etc etc. But still, we are kicking ourselves, it just never occurred to us that the one week service wouldn't actually be guaranteed to be one week.
Does anyone have any words of reassurance that we might get it in time?