Originally Posted by
Steinbeck1211
No you should not be worried at all, the reason why some people get their passports before others is based entirely on where your application is sent to be processed. After your application is mailed to either Philadelphia PA or Irving TX, it is scanned and sent to a passport agency such as Portsmouth, New Hampshire, Charleston South Carolina, Minneapolis Minnesota etc. and based on the workload of the agency that your application is assigned to, it will determine how fast your application is processed
I am positive that the National Passport Agency customer service folks said my application was in Houston, TX. It went from Philadelphia, PA to Houston, TX apparently.