Originally Posted by
GUWonder
The online status updating for what's going on with US passport applications has always been weak in various ways IME. And the cost to do the fixes to make it wholly accurate would possibly come with an increase in passport fees because of it and even slower processing times.
My issue was less with the passport agency’s status reporting and more with the USPS. The USPS tracking was fine until...
Your item departed our PHILADELPHIA PA DISTRIBUTION CENTER destination facility on February 8, 2021 at 10:54 am. The item is currently in transit to the destination.
...which is
still what I see when I enter the tracking number for my application even weeks after I received my new passport.
Originally Posted by
seawolf
Child passports have to be done in person in front of an acceptance agent such as USPS.
As do replacements for adult passports that were lost, stolen, or washed away in a hurricane storm surge, as I unfortunately know. I just couldn’t remember if I dropped the application in the mail back in March, 2011 or the acceptance agent at the Holbrook AZ post office did it for me.