I picked up my new bars and wings the other day after a sim as I was essentially in the building. Had to take a number and wait - no fast track here. The wait was 2 hours, fortunately occupied by the 20 new goo goo eyed cabin crew asking stupid questions about their newly learned SEP etc.
Doing the math though I would say that there will be about 300 man hours lost just to pick up something that could easily be dropped in our letter boxes at the training college.
Now that's a good use of a scarce resource.
Just do it on a day off in your top bid month - if you get a day off, chasing the o/t to make up for your pay cut...