Yep, totally agree re the correspondence bit.

In short, unfortunately I think the error was probably done by the bureaucrat in person. But yep, it did (probably, though I never got a clear answer) come down to the address issue you mention...

From what I heard from another Australian who had similar happen, they defaulted to sending the residency card back to Australia. For some reason, you're not allowed a second one, so she, at least, had to wait for the idiots to send it to the embassy in Australia, the embassy to realize the error, and then send it back to Sweden, to the correct address this time...

Given that I knew that when I went in, in person, I very specifically made the bureaucrat write down the correct address, and insisted that he send it there. But then he basically ignored me, said "Hurry up, other people are waiting for their turn" (which is very Swedish behaviour) and shoved me out of the office. Thus, I'm entirely unsurprised he then still managed to fuck it up.

Anyway, so I waited and waited for them to sort it, and for this fucking card to arrive (which delayed my leaving the cult I was living in), but it never did, even by the time I left Sweden, apparently, lol...

Bureaucracy, amirite?

So yeah. Ridiculous all round.