There were wonderful tidbits, like how our backlog of declassified documents is 400 million pages, and a serious discussion of whether we go overboard with secrecy.
The Home Office paid Passport Office staff up to £674,000 in bonuses this summer during the biggest backlog of travel documents for decades.
The Passport Office admits it is "experiencing exceptional demand" for passports before the summer holidays, but has insisted "there is no backlog" of travel documents at its offices.
The Passport Office's claims that there is no backlog of travel documents in its offices was challenged on Tuesday night after photographs showed that hundreds of files, full of applications, have been stacked in a passport office room that is usually used for meetings.
The Our Towns column yesterday, about the Nassau County clerk's efforts to clear up a backlog of real estate documents, misspelled the writer's surname.
"We're certainly seeing a backlog of tens of thousands of documents every day within the system, which has an effect on how quickly eligibility and recertifications can be processed," he said.
Like much of west Africa, many of the clinics and other healthcare facilities servicing the city still rely on time-consuming paper and print to coordinate operations - meaning there's often (if not usually) a large backlog of paperwork and insurance documents waiting to be dealt with.
In a statement, the Federal Bureau of Investigation said that it was working to reduce its backlog of unreviewed audio recordings and electronic documents, and that it continued seeking to hire or contract with more linguists.
The National Archives have a declassification backlog of 400 million pages just for documents older than 25 years.
They are accused of ordering low-level workers to destroy thousands of documents from last February to April to reduce a growing backlog of unprocessed paperwork.
Among other challenges, he joins an agency with a growing backlog of applications and declining revenue, as documented recently in the blog Patently-O.
