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Passport Agency Appointments (same day expedited service)
Appointments for same-day expedited service often go quickly. It is best that you schedule your appointment with the passport agency exactly 14 days before your trip. You will want to call the passport number before the center opens at 8am EST as they will have just opened up one day (14 days out) of appointments at all agencies. Appointment times start at 8am. It is important that you have enough buffer in your travel schedule. For example, if you make an appointment for a new passport at 11am and your time of travel is at 2pm, there will not be enough time for you to get your passport. If you book the 8am slot you may have to wait until the end of the business day to get your new passport or it may only be a few hours.

You will want to have your date of travel, time of travel, your flight itinerary number, name of destination, full name of applicant, and applicant's birth city, and the zip code of where you live (to help them find the closest available center with open slots). Use the following steps to increase your chances of success to booking an appointment as they can go very quickly:
  1. 14 days before your trip, you need to schedule an appointment with the passport agency.
  2. At 7:55 am call the passport number 877-487-2778 (This have to be exactly 14 days before your plane ticket or less. If less, it will get harder to find an appointment)
  3. Click 1 (For English)
  4. Click 2 (New Passport)
  5. Continue to Click 7 to repeat, and keep doing this while watching your watch or using Time.gov to get the exact time down to the second.
  6. When your it hits exactly 8:00 am Click 2 (for traveling within 14 days option)
  7. There will be a delay of 3-4 second and you will wait for the next available agent. If you are very lucky, you will be put straight through to an agent. You may be waiting few minutes or maybe as long as 15-20 minutes.
  8. If you did not click 1 exactly at 8 am, you may have to wait for more than an hour and half
After the appointment slot has been reserved you will be provided with a unique identifier code and reservation number. These details will also be emailed to you.

Credit: chgoeditor

Known office locator numbers (not complete)
Note: The office code (first two digits of your application locator number returned by Passport Status) is the office reviewing your documents and approving your application. It isn't necessarily the address you mailed the forms to (always Irving or Philadelphia for renewals) nor the facility where the book is physically printed and mailed (often Tucson or Hot Springs).

10: Boston
11: NYC
12: Honolulu
14: Stamford, CT
15: Portsmouth, NH
17: Aurora, CO
18: Chicago
19: Washington, DC
20-29: Portsmouth, NH
34-39: Charleston
40-42: New Orleans, LA
45: Portsmouth, NH
50: Los Angeles, CA
51: Miami
53: Seattle
54: Minneapolis
55: Dallas
56: Detroit
57: San Francisco
58: Philadelphia, PA
61-64: Tucson
65: Hot Springs, AR
67: San Juan, PR
68: Portsmouth, NH
69: Portsmouth, NH
71: US embassies/consulates abroad (possibly Portsmouth, NH)
74: Atlanta
75: St Albans, VT
76: San Diego, CA
77: Buffalo, NY
78: El Paso, TX
79: Houston, TX
80: Special Issuance Agency ("Issues diplomatic, official, service, and no-fee regular passports, and facilitates visa processing for those traveling on behalf of the U.S. government.")
95: Online

A list of agencies and their locator numbers is listed on this page under the heading, "List of passport agencies and centers with locator numbers."

H/T Nayef, txviking, and various individual posts both here and on Reddit. If you have a locator not in the above list, check the return address agency name or postmark/ZIP on your returned citizenship docs, or passport card if you applied for one, which may be the processing office, although the address itself is likely to be a PO Box in Sterling, VA in all cases (which appears to be a lockbox location that processes mail for all locations). The passport books are printed in fewer locations, often Hot Springs and Tucson, and may not correspond to the agency where the processing steps occurred. If it doesnt match the list above, please add or correct.
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Old Jan 25, 2019 | 10:24 am
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Update for renewal of child passport (regular service):

Jan 15 Applied at Post Office
Jan 23 Received locator #
Jan 24 Passport printed
Jan 25 Received USPS tracking #
Jan 29 Delivered
Feb - Will update with delivery date for Passport Card and Birth Cert return

Now if only I could get one of my passports back from the Venezuelan Embassy... LOL

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Old Jan 25, 2019 | 9:12 pm
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  • Mailed Friday January 18 - expidiated with money order
  • Recieved by agency Tuesday January 21 (due to holiday Monday)
  • Notified today, Friday January 25th that it will arrive next Wedneday (Express mail option)
Not bad, total 10 days with a holiday.
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Old Jan 27, 2019 | 4:19 pm
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Originally Posted by Boraxo
Update for renewal of child passport (regular service):

Jan 15 Applied at Post Office
Jan 23 Received locator #
Jan 24 Passport printed
Jan 25 Received USPS tracking #

Now if only I could get one of my passports back from the Venezuelan Embassy... LOL
Did you put your upcoming travel date on the application?
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Old Jan 28, 2019 | 10:38 am
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Renewal passport book, filled out online, printed, mailed USPS Priority from CA to TX, regular service.
01/08 mailed
01/10 delivered to Irving, TX
01/14 check cleared
01/28 status checked online, issued locator, shows "currently being processed"...

I'm not sweating our March 7 trip just yet.
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Old Jan 28, 2019 | 11:22 am
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Originally Posted by magique99
Did you put your upcoming travel date on the application?
yes for June 2019. So we did not request rush service or pay expedite fees. Hard to top 2 weeks 😃
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Old Jan 29, 2019 | 11:50 am
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Just saw this thread and am posting as a data point.
Expedited Renewal service with 1st time request for card
Overnighted on Friday 12/28/2018
Received by Passport office Saturday 12/29/2019
Received Passport locator# Wednesday 1/2/2019
Received Passport issued email Thursday 1/3/2019
Received Passport 1/4/2019

One week turnaround, we were impressed.
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Old Jan 31, 2019 | 3:44 am
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First time new passport processing time for regular processing
Mail application and checks on 01-02-2019
Checks cashed 01-09-2019
"Passport mailed" email received on 01-29-2019
Passport received 01-30-2019
Passport issue date is 01-19-2019
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Old Feb 2, 2019 | 4:29 pm
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minor for regular process

01-08-2019 usps acceptance
01-10-2019 check cahsed/trackable online
01-29-2019 issued
01-30-2019 printed
02-01-2019 recieved.

I was told on phone that the case was processed at NH, but the passport was mailed out from AR.
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Old Feb 5, 2019 | 11:30 am
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13 days

First Time Adult, Expedited and Next Day Delivery

Applied: 01/23/2019
Rcvd at Passport Agency: 01/29/2019
Mailed and Trackable: 02/04/2019
Rcvd by me: 02/05/2019
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Old Feb 5, 2019 | 5:19 pm
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Regular renewal, did not pay for expedited processing.

Same 13 days

Sent in Jan 24 at local USPS (Irvings, TX)

Payments cleared bank by way of converting checks to ACH on Jan 30. First time I saw a check can be converted to ACH.

Signed up updates on Travel.State.gov site.

Received notifications on Feb 4 about applications in process, followed by another set of notifications the same day about passports were printed.

Today Feb 5th received notifications on passports were sent by Priority Mails with tracking numbers.

Signed up Updates on USPS site, received updates packages will be delivered on Feb 5 by 8pm.

Packages are coming in from AZ despite applications were sent to TX.
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Old Feb 5, 2019 | 7:16 pm
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Expedited renewal a year early due to running out of pages.

Jan 29: Sent application to PA via Express Mail
Jan 30: Received at Passport Agency
Feb 5 (1AM): Passport Printed
Feb 5 (1PM): Passport Mailed by Express Mail
Feb 5 (7PM): Passport trackable via USPS.com (coming from LIT)
Feb 6: Confirmed delivery by 12PM

Door to door only 8 days. No idea how long it took last time around, but this was a remarkably quick turnaround.
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Old Feb 8, 2019 | 12:38 pm
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Regular renewal for two minors, done at the County passport office here in Portland, OR.

In Person - County Application: 1/23/19
Email and Tracking: 1/28/19
Print Notice: 2/1/19
Received: 2/7/19

My adult renewal by mail was received at a similar time and still waiting on print notice.
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Old Feb 9, 2019 | 10:00 am
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*UPDATE*
tl:dr regular service renewal turnaround with filling out online/mailing was exactly 30 days, door-to-door

Renewal passport book, filled out online, printed, mailed USPS Priority from CA to TX, regular service.
01/08 mailed
01/10 delivered to Irving, TX
01/14 check cleared
01/28 status checked online, issued locator, shows "currently being processed"...
02/05 a.m. email processing your application, p.m. email process complete, passport has been printed (lol)
02/06 mailed from AR
02/08 received in CA [date of issue 05/2019]
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Old Feb 14, 2019 | 1:09 pm
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Originally Posted by kxc262
Will update this post as I receive more info. Standard processing, 52 pg book. No passport card. Money order.

1/10 - Mailed out from Kansas City to Irving via First Class w/certified
1/13 - Delivery confirmed
1/15 - Locator number assigned
2/11 - New passport mailed from Hot Springs National Park, AR (Priority mail)
2/14 - New passport arrived

Date of issue is February 2019.
Waiting for old passport now.

Just slightly above a 30 day turn around.

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Old Feb 19, 2019 | 12:42 pm
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Renewed my standard adult passport a month or two before expiration, routine service. Also got a passport card this time (my driver's license is Real ID compliant, but I figured it couldn't hurt to get an extra ID for $30). Total time was just under 5 weeks.

Mailed form/old passport: Jan 11
Check cleared: Jan 15
Received new passport: Feb 13
Received passport card: Feb 16
Received old passport: Feb 18
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