{"id":1635,"date":"2011-04-28T22:46:18","date_gmt":"2011-04-29T03:46:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rushmypassport.com\/newlp\/blog\/?p=1635"},"modified":"2018-07-05T11:19:31","modified_gmt":"2018-07-05T11:19:31","slug":"lost-passport-uk-passport-agency-says-check-your-trash-can","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushmypassport.com\/blog\/lost-passport-uk-passport-agency-says-check-your-trash-can\/","title":{"rendered":"Lost Passport? UK Passport Agency Says &#8220;Check Your Trash Can&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The UK&#8217;s Identity and Passport Service just released the results of a study that looked at replacement passport applications to determine where and how passports are most likely to be lost. Like the US, the UK has citizens applying to replace a lost passport fill out a questionnaire explaining exactly what happened to the missing document.<\/p>\n<p>According to the statistics, one of the most common ways to lose a passport in the UK is to accidentally throw it away, according to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-13164006\" target=\"_blank\">BBC write up<\/a> of the study.  About 10,000 passports a year are taken out with the trash.  Bars and clubs are the other major culprits.  As you might expect, people in their 20&#8217;s seem to be the most prone to these types of accidents: 42.8% of the people who applied to replace a lost passport last year were in that age group.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the BBC also collected a  list of some of the more unusual explanations people gave for their lost passports. Check it out:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<blockquote>\n<li>Taxi attacked by gunman on way to airport in Brazil<\/li>\n<li>Fell out of bag while snowboarding<\/li>\n<li>Drunk boyfriend (now ex) destroyed it<\/li>\n<li>Last seen in pocket of a coat donated to tramp<\/li>\n<li>Wallet stolen at children&#8217;s party with passport inside<\/li>\n<li>Passports stored in safe in Turkish villa, thieves stole safe<\/li>\n<li>Put in bin by infant daughter; and<\/li>\n<li>Put on a fire with clothes<\/li>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/ul>\n<p>No matter what happened to your passport, RushMyPassport can help you get it replaced quickly.  Normal passport processing takes about 6 weeks, while the Department of State&#8217;s expedited service takes about 3 weeks.  We hand-deliver your paperwork to the Department of State for processing times as low as 24 hours. Even better, there&#8217;s no need to make an appointment or travel to a passport agency.<\/p>\n<p>Lost your passport? Let us help!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UK&#8217;s Identity and Passport Service just released the results of a study that looked at replacement passport applications to determine where and how passports are most likely to be lost. Like the US, the UK has citizens applying to replace a lost passport fill out a questionnaire explaining exactly what happened to the missing document.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[17],"class_list":["post-1635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-passport-processing","tag-lost-passport"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushmypassport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushmypassport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushmypassport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushmypassport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushmypassport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1635"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushmypassport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1635\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6731,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushmypassport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1635\/revisions\/6731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushmypassport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushmypassport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushmypassport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}