Posted this into the wrong topic yesterday....
Application sent via recorded delivery to Peterborough - 06/06/2016
Application signed for in Peterborough - 07/06/2016
Text from passport people saying application has been received - 08/06/2016
I tried to do check and send, but the person at the Post Office was unimpressed with the quality of biro I used, he wouldn't approve (the tail end of the vertical bars on a upper case 'E' were fading out, you know, like if you were lifting a pen off a piece of paper). So, I just sent it off as normal. Hope he wasn't correct! I've had run-ins with him in the past. He's a bit of a stickler for the rules, but whenever I've ignored him in the past on such things, I've always been proven correct.