The genius of no-booking for passport applications...
I walk into my local post office at 10.30 this morning hoping to get some passport photos taken. At the counter are a lady and her baby having their passport applications processed by a staff member. To the left of the counter are two other ladies waiting, one in a nurses uniform, clutching what are clearly passport applications.
I think I know how this will play out but decide I'll wait and see.
The staff member finishes with the lady and her baby and looks at me and I look over at the other two ladies waiting.
"Those two are passports", she says waving at them like she is trying to swat a fly.
I explain that I would like to have some passport photos taken. She tells me I'll have to wait behind "those two" and starts serving the man waiting in the lengthy queue forming behind me.
Cheers AusPost - great system you've got there!