Mods: any chance of a separate forum for threads about the ticket office?
One of the biggest causes for delay in the past month has probably been people, like me, who were calling up to book their Falmer presentations. That's something that definitely can't be done online (although I don't see why not, reserving a particular time slot works well for supermarket deliveries) and that's really something that should have been contracted out separately, so it wasn't handled by the ticket office staff.
I suspect that in a month's time, the waiting time will be a lot shorter as and when the STs have all gone.
I thought they DID contract it out, to some call centre in the west country if I remember rightly.