Pardon the tenuous relevance to UA but I think a lot of people here share my annoyance.

I have never renewed a US passport in the USA. I found out that it takes 6 weeks (!) if you do it stateside. You can pay $100+ extra to expedite it to 2 weeks (!) or you can make a special appointment at the local (DC for me) passport office and you have to cough up the extra fee. Oh yeah, you can't ask any questions without calling a 900 number. ...? How do we let these thieves get away with this nonsense or maybe its unpatriotic to leave the country? And unfathomable that a 6 week window is not plenty of time?

My wife told me that it really only takes a couple of weeks with the standard service. (She renewed in 1998.) Is this still true? Otherwise I think I will renew at the consulate when I am in CPH.