I have a trip coming up to Brazil at the end of August. My passport is full, and I originally was going to have pages added so that I would have room to add in the Brazilian Visa. It turns out that as there are stamps on the last four pages of my passport (the amendments/endorsements section), I'm not eligible for additional pages, and need to obtain a new passport.

I contacted PassportExpress (an expediter) and asked if they could guarantee return of my new passport within their 2-week expedited period, even if my flight was not within two weeks (because I need the passport back before my trip to Brazil so I can have a visa added at the Brazilian Consulate here in Houston). The rep told me that they would notify the State Dept. when attempting to expedite the passport of the reason I needed it back well before my actual flight date, but stopped short of telling me they could guarantee delivery within the 2-week period (even if I paid both their expedite fee and the U.S. Passport Office's expedite fees). They also told me that I would have to include a letter notifying the U.S. Passport Office why I needed to have my passport renewed prior to its expiry (due to the stamps on the last four pages prohibiting addition of new pages).

This all sounds like a transaction that could go seriously FUBAR very quickly. Can anyone here recommend a passport expediting service (other than Passport Express) that might be able to guarantee delivery of my passport within their expedite period, despite the fact that my flight will not actually be departing within that period?