MSC 75, I can't tell you about expedited. I am doing a routine renewal that finally showed up in the system after sitting in the mailroom for nearly 6 weeks, per my post above.

If your old passport is physically undamaged and in good shape, the only document you need is that old passport, since it was issued less than 15 years ago, and your DS-82 renewal application with a current, qualifying photo..

Since passports are Federal, it is your US House Representative you should contact. You can find your Representative at https://www.house.gov/representative...representative . You can also try your Senators, Diane Feinstein or Alan Padilla. I'd try your representative first, though, they have fewer people knocking on their door for constituent services than the nearly 40 million Feinstein and Padilla represent.

I don't know if actually applying at USPS is really any faster. Once they take the application, it is still mailed and will take the same mailing (and sitting at the passport center) time. You do not need to apply in person with a renewal, although you can. It isn't like going to an actual Passport Agency.

Your Global Entry card is good for land crossings without your accompanying passport. At least into the US, not sure how Mexico feels about it, but my guess is it would be okay. It isn't good for air travel and neither is your driver's license, even if you have an enhanced DL. You could walk across with your GE card and maybe fly on a Mexican internal flight from Tijuana. Apparently with COVID, US CBP is allowing re-entry for citizens with expired passports, although that was mainly intended for those who got stuck overseas and had no way to renew their passports when everything closed up.

The days of going to Mexico or Canada with only a driver's license and birth certificate are long gone. See the Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative (WHTI).

You can get entry requirements at a consumer version of Timatic (Timatic is what the airlines use to verify your documents to decide to allow you to board). It is at https://www.iatatravelcentre.com/pas...quirements.htm