Originally Posted by
Reindeerflame
A friend submitted her passport renewal 3 weeks ago, paying just the $67 fee and using the ordinary mail. No political pressure or connections. No Fed ex..
Maybe they're getting back on track. That's about how long it should take (in an ideal world).
At the same time, though, this is troubling. There is still a backlog of passports with waiting times much, much greater than that. It seems that they should finish processing the passports that were submitted weeks ago before they process something that was just submitted. This anecdote indicates that they probably don't have an organized workflow system.