July 28th, 2007
Passport Debacle
Have you heard about all the talk about getting a passport, renewals and expediated? Well, Andy and I are going to Europe in October and I neglected to update my name. We hadn’t talked about going to Europe for sure in awhile until just recently, so I hadn’t seen the point. Andy’s mom remind us at the beginning of June. She had read that it was taking more than 3 months for the regular. I looked into and Andy and I decided to expediated after talking to the post office. It was an extra 60 dollars, but we figured we would worry less about it.
We sent it express mail on July 10th. On July 13th, they received it per the post office tracking number. On July 24th I checked online and it said they had received my passport. The next day I received a flyer from the Passport Agency stated that they had received my passport and I would have it in 2-3 weeks from the day they receive it. Yesterday, when our phone line was reconnected, I had two emails from passport agency from the 26th. First one was in the morning and they said they were processing it. About 4 hours later they sent another email saying they were finished and to expect it in priority mail by July 30th. It was in the mailbox today! I am so happy with my experience with it. I just wish I wouldn’t have waited so long and paid the extra $60. But oh well, what’s done is done.
