Well, I feel silly. The government really stepped up, and I owe them an apology.
Not for the process stuff, obviously. The process was dumb. But for my comments on the timeline. The website does, in fact, say that processing time takes between 8 and 11 weeks, plus 2 weeks on either side for shipping. But my new passport has reached my hand 3 weeks after I put the old one in the mail. Kudos to the government.
And while I’m at it, major kudos to the government for successfully putting all of us in the mindset where we can be blown away by doing in 3 weeks what a private company could do in two days.
Just think about it. Fill out the form online. Take a digital picture, upload it to the online form. Send. Quick search through the databases for terrorist alerts, then your passport prints automatically, gets sealed into a parcel, and is in the mail. 2 day shipping.
And I am so grateful that mine came in 3 weeks.
