I have family that live abroad, so I like to minimize the amount of time I don't have a passport available in case someone gets sick or whatever and I want/need to travel immediately.

(I didn't lie on my application form, but that's my motivation for paying for expedited processing even when my soonest scheduled int'l travel is several months out.)

USA Passport (book and card) renewal, expedited service:

4/4/2022: dropped renewal materials in mail, 2-day delivery, from Long Island, NY to Philadelphia
4/5/2022: materials arrived in Philadelphia in evening
4/6/2022: logged into system and status updated to "in process"
4/25/2022: status updated to "approved"
5/3/2022: new passport and new card received in Washington, DC - passport was 52-page book (as requested), old style. Postmark was 4/25 from Portsmouth, NH on both.
UPDATE:
5/6/2022: old passport (with holes punched in the MRZ) and card (with upper left corner cut off) received - postmarked 4/27 from Sterling, VA.

Locater number 69, both book and card mailed from Portsmouth, NH, old citizenship documents mailed from Sterling, VA.

System still never updated from "approved" to "mailed".

So overall, one month door-to-door...not bad!

Here is the status of my wife's renewal request

USA Passport (large book, no card) renewal, routine service service but expedited mail:

04/08/2022: Mailed all materials via USPS Priority Mail envelope from suburban Chicago to Irving, Tx
04/12/2022: Envelope delivered at Irving, Tx
04/13/2022: Check cleared. Inquired and renewal was in process. Locator started with 62.
05/02/2022: Saw in USPS Informed Delivery that a package due to be delivered next day. From Passport Services Dos Tucson.
05/03/2022: New large passport book delivered. I checked the approval status on the website and it said the book would arrive by May 5.

I am out of town and I assume that this is not a NexGen passport as I did not receive one in my recent renewal. I'll update this post if it is a NexGen passport after I get back home.

Update (5/5): I have my new passport in-hand and it was sent here to my home in IL from NH. All in all, it took just over 3 weeks.

Looks like Germany lost.

New Application Expedited

4/12 Submitted Post Office
Received Next Gen 26 page - 5/7
Locator 62 Tucson

NYC Passport office
 

USA Passport (book and card) renewal, expedited service: 4/29/2022: APPT made NY Passport office 5/10/2022: 9am appt moves every 15 min came 30 min 5/10/2022: 9:17am submitted and left. Was asked for itinerary, old passport and documents
5/10/22: 12:15pm name called. Pass Book + card with old passport (with holes punched in the MRZ).

Very professional, swift and smooth. Amazing location..

Has anyone who renewed at a consulate abroad received a next gen passport? I’m not sure where passports applied for abroad are actually printed.

They're printed in the States. It used to be that the National Passport Center in Portsmouth, NH, handled the applications from US consulates and embassies, but I don't know if that is still true.

Passports issued by consular offices are "printed" at the consular office from blank stock. The blank stock is manufactured in the US.

It is not a case of the consular office taking/reviewing/approving the application and then the book/card is mailed or flown overnight from CONUS. Consular issued passports are handed to the applicant usually the same day, sometimes in hours, sometimes the next day.

When a consular office gets low on supplies new blank stock is shipped to the office from the states.

In this case I’m talking about a regular 10-year passport for citizens who live abroad, not the emergency passports that consulates print on site. In any case, when I submitted today the consulate said it would be printed in the US and it would not be Next Gen, so question answered.

Section 107, you are referring to Emergency passports, not proper passports.

I have obtained regular 28-page, 10-year duration passbooks for myself and 5-year passbooks for my children in one day in countries other than the US. YMMV.

Abilities (and willingness) may vary from consulate to consulate.

Also the policy may have changed over time.

Question about Passport Agency appointments:
I have intl travel on 5/29 9AM (Sunday). Wiki says to call for appointment exactly 14 days before travel date which of course falls on a Sunday (closed). Should I call on Friday 5/13 or wait until Monday 5/16? I am concerned that if I wait till Monday, all slots for 5/27 (the only weekday within 72-hours of travel) will be booked. Thanks!