It simply does not happen anywhere else that I ever encountered in 46 years.
I have certainly experienced it in the land of the free some years ago when operating the YMX-DTW-YMX sector of the BA LHR-YMX-DTW-YMX-LHR flight. I looked on the positive side that the exercise helped me prevent deep vein thrombosis.
It is a waste of effort trying to understand or change pointless bureaucracy and have to agree with the previous poster regarding the absurdly short turnaround times used by RYR.