Mine was on approved for 10 days before being printed back in March – so it’s not a next day thing once it’s approved. The passports are laser printed so each one has to be loaded into a cassette holder and put in batches through a machine, it’s not like a printing press throwing off thousands an hour!
my wifes was approved last tuesday, printed wednesday and delivered friday.
just been in the phone to them, apparently, TNT do not work on Sundays for passport collections, even if it was printed yesterday, it was show as printed until TNT pick it up. I was advised that should update tomorrow and they are confident that i will have it this week.