Postponed

My issues with the Stearns County license center have continued.

We were planning a vacation for early January, and only remembered (or were reminded) on Saturday that we would now need passports to leave the country. I called yesterday to find out how long it takes to recieve a passport and was told that if we paid and addional $60 per passport it would be "2 weeks, door-to-door".

We went down to the courthouse today, spent 30 minutes filling out paperwork, and were then told that they "might" arrive in 3 weeks if we paid for expedited processing. We could make it faster by paying yet another $30 per passport for express shipping. Then there would be a "good chance" they would arrive in time.

Excuse the fuck me?

We decided to keep our money and postpone the vacation until after our passports arrive in the standard 4-6 weeks. Hey, January in MN is beautiful, right?

Why is our government so half-assed? If they're going to charge people to process this shit faster, shouldn't there be some sort of guarantee? A business would never be able to run this way, but it's just standard operating procedure for our Federal government.

Fuck.