What a bunch of crap. 72 hours to do a simple criminal background check is NOT a “race against the clock”.
By the way, the results of the checks done on me usually come back within 2 minutes of submittal.
Me, too. I don't put my SSN on the form, either, because there's only one of me in the entire U.S. of A. with my exact name.
I have a buddy who supplies his SSN, because there are thousands of him, and it still takes 30 minutes for his to come back on a busy day.