I applied for my daughter's on Aug 13th, and on Monday I received a letter from the NY Passport Agency requesting me to do the application again as the post office clerk where I submitted it apparently forgot to sign and/or stamp the form (!). Anyway, had to do it all again -- no payment of fees again, but still pretty annoying.

Some friends of mine who live in Idaho submitted passports end of July. Still "in process". Fingers crossed they get them soon (I see some posts where folks mid-July got them last week or thereabouts).

One friend received her first passport a few days ago after applying in late July (non-expedited, non-urgent). She said it took exactly two months. Don't know where it was processed, but she lives in Northern Virginia.

Tomorrow, the 22nd of Sept., is exactly one month to the dot since I mailed in the passport for renewal. Other than my personal check getting cashed in, the status is still showing "In Process"...not so sure how much longer it'll take for them to even touch the application to further process it....

New passport application. Adding this here as another data point.

Location: Lowell, MA

08/15/2020 - Application submitted at local USPS office.
08/20/2020 - In process
09/21/2020 - Passport book + card shipped

Wife got hers last Friday. Husband should get his hopefully sometime this week.

Passport agency received my renewal application by mail on the 28th of July. Just recieved an email with approval and message stating, new passport will be delived by the 28th of September.

I'm in LA, CA.

So, confirming the rough timeframe from the last few posts:
Renewal application mailed 7/17, "in process" on 7/23.
Status "shipped" morning of 9/18, "approved" that afternoon (does seem like they've gotten that backwards for a few people in this thread).
Received new passport card 9/21, received new passport book 9/22. Still waiting on the old passport--hopefully tomorrow.

The thing that has been a mess for me is the mail. The USPS tracking number that was emailed to me doesn't match either the book (different number) or the card (no tracking), so I'm guessing it's the old passport, although if you're only going to send one bit of tracking info, that seems the least important. Also, that tracking number supposedly had a delivery attempt 9/19, and is now in some sort of re-attempt state, where they were supposed to deliver the next business day. I was about to head to the local post office to try to figure that out, when the book came today. It had a different tracking number, and when I looked it up, it was also in that same re-attempt state, even though it's been successfully delivered. I'll give the old passport another day or two before I go fight with the USPS, I guess.

Are people who are submitting new renewal requests now doing regular or expedited? Would it make a difference for recently submitted applications? My passport expires next month, trying to decide if i should send it in now or just wait a month or two and do an expedited renewal (no immediate international travel planned)

According to travel.state.gov, Expedited service is not currently available. My suggestion would be to renew now. There is no commitment yet as to when Expedited service will once again be offered.

I agree with the previous reply; might as well do it now. My passport expired end of July, and I also had no travel plans. Once I saw they were working through the backlog at a reasonable pace, I sent it in mid-July, figuring it didn't matter much if an expired passport sat in my desk or theirs.

They received my passport 8/4. On 8/5, they reported 1.06 million passports awaiting issuance. The total number of passports issued in the seven subsequent weeks (i.e. the sum of the number of issued passports reported for each of those seven weeks) is 1.2 million. So my passport should have been issued already, right? Right?

No.

Also today's weekly report shows them falling behind---more applications received than passports issued. And far fewer passports being issued in recent weeks than were issued in July through mid-August.

they seem to be pretty transparent that they are beginning to work in august and there is some variability depending on location.. just give it a couple weeks - i am quite impressed by how this is managed..
as a reference my kids' global entry renewal submitted iirc in february is nowhere to be found...

For an adult renewal application sent on or about August 4th or 5th, I would expect that it would most commonly be back by at least the end of this coming week if not even before. But that is based on applications that get to State for processing. With mail in the US being way messed up, such renewal application by mail is at the mercy not just of what State does but also with all that is going on with the USPS as of late.

Is that really what travel.state.gov said? Whatever language has been put up now, it should be way more nuanced than simply saying expedited service is not currently available. Expedited processing service is restricted; it is not entirely unavailable to all.

https://travel.state.gov/content/tra.../get-fast.html

You are correct that it is slightly more nuanced than I paraphrased. "Expedited" service is currently unavailable, however "life-or-death emergencies" service remains available.