However, in the course of the neverending reorganisation of the company, the ministry and the company heads kept delaying the decision about whether my branch should continue to have that benefit. In practice, that meant that instead of getting new rail passes, the validity of the old one was extended.

So, here I am with the rail pass of 2007, the validity of which was just extended again...

_{*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.}