Not driving licence but passport a couple of months ago. Renewed online, confirmation that replacement was being couriered back with 5 days, received 3 days later.
It is obviously all a bit erratic but Passport Office (and possibly DVLA) normal annual demand is ~7.5m applications, for 2 years during Covid demand dropped to ~4m, now back up to 9.5m as a catch up. Furloughed staff have found other jobs, capacity reduced and demand up.
No surprise there are problems.
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