Do you happen to know which office it was processed in?

I don't know - I mailed to the national center in PA, if that helps.

The first two digits of the locator number indicate the office.

68xxxxxxx -- where would that be? I just checked the mailing envelope and return address is Portsmouth, NH. Hope this helps!

Thanks! And yeah 68 is from the NH office.

There’s a lot of speculation over which offices process things “faster” and in another message board they’re claiming the office in Charleston, SC (where my application is pending) is rather slow. But we’ll see how it goes.

13 days behind you, I really didn't want to double my cost to go expedited but I just hate the uncertainty of not having tracking there and back, plus hearing that they don't even confirm processing for weeks with normal processing. In the end I paid up.

My USPS has been great (used them three times in the last few years) but they always default to super-expensive 1-day priority mail. I'm sure I could just ask for slower service but it seems strange they never ask... I don't think they get a sales bonus do they?

Not as far as I know. 😂 In fact, several other people and I were not even offered priority or express mail delivery from the USPS office to the passport processing centers. But I still lucked out and had my status change to “in process” a mere three days after I sent it. I wish I knew on which basis these applications are sent to their respective processing centers.

One person in the other boards send his expedited application the same day I did but he already got his passport today. Literally two weeks exactly from when he submitted his things. And he said the office was Atlanta (locator code 74).

I’m glad my application didn’t end up in the New Orleans office though.

According to earlier threads, it's not sent to a specific processing enter. It's sent to lockbox location(s) operated by Citibank where the documents are scanned. Essentially the different passport sites are merely printing facilities.

You do know there is a government-developed process map published for this stuff — one that isn’t really ever fully up-to-date? ;)

The location matters even after Citibank is out of the picture. Not all State sites have the same way of working productively. Unfortunately, it’s not all that easy to pick and choose what happens with where it goes, especially when dealing with the USPS to send in applications.

So you are implying that if you don't use USPS to send in the application you can pick and choose where it's processed?

Unfortunately, I thought the address to send new expedited applications is the same for all acceptance facilities unless you use one of those passport agencies

For me, the renewal took less than 30 days door to door in August 2021, regular processing, had sent it to Irving TX.

You sent it directly to Irving, or that's where it ended up? Can we send directly to a center? Thanks.

No need to get excited.

Irving, TX is where routine applications from residents of CA, FL, IL, MN, NY, and TX should go. For the rest of the country it is Philly

https://travel.state.gov/content/tra...ort/renew.html

yes, the routine application was mailed to Irving, TX

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Hello, does someone have experience with the Boston office? Are they processing fast or slow?