Passport stuff
Feb. 19th, 2009 06:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bunsen_hThis afternoon turned out to be a very good time to apply for a new passport. There were only a couple of people waiting for their turns to deal with the clerks.
It's been seven weeks since my old passport was confiscated at the passport office because the police jumped the gun and reported it stolen, four and a half years ago. That passport still hasn't been entered into their system as having been collected — apparently that data entry is done at a central location. Luckily, the local passport office keeps logs of the passports that they handle and send out to that central office, so there was sufficient documentation to support my statutory declaration concerning its confiscation. I'm moderately aghast about the demonstrated multiple failures of communication about it.
It was a terrible time to try to get out of the downtown area by bus, westwards. I waited for about 40 minutes, but no buses were running along the main transit corridor; somewhere upstream they were being blocked for the Obama visit. Around 4 p.m., someone called OC Transpo on a cell phone and was told that no buses were likely to be getting through until around 5 p.m. I decided to walk down to the central library and browse for an hour or so, and when I got there, I found that a few buses were being detoured and were slogging through a traffic jam in front of the library. I finally managed to get onto a usefully-routed bus around 4:30.
It's been seven weeks since my old passport was confiscated at the passport office because the police jumped the gun and reported it stolen, four and a half years ago. That passport still hasn't been entered into their system as having been collected — apparently that data entry is done at a central location. Luckily, the local passport office keeps logs of the passports that they handle and send out to that central office, so there was sufficient documentation to support my statutory declaration concerning its confiscation. I'm moderately aghast about the demonstrated multiple failures of communication about it.
It was a terrible time to try to get out of the downtown area by bus, westwards. I waited for about 40 minutes, but no buses were running along the main transit corridor; somewhere upstream they were being blocked for the Obama visit. Around 4 p.m., someone called OC Transpo on a cell phone and was told that no buses were likely to be getting through until around 5 p.m. I decided to walk down to the central library and browse for an hour or so, and when I got there, I found that a few buses were being detoured and were slogging through a traffic jam in front of the library. I finally managed to get onto a usefully-routed bus around 4:30.
