Let me tell everyone my tale of whoa. We have a caribbean cruise planned for 11/27/22 - 12/4/22. A few weeks ago, I took out our passports in order to Check-In. Guess what - our passports expired. So I called our travel agent who said we could use our birth certificates. In the meantime, I completed the Passport Renewal Form. However, according to Passport instructions you cannot send Renewal via Fed Ex etc. It should be sent via US Postal Service. So I sent our Passport Renewal via Priority Mail so I could track the delivery. Guess what, it was sent 10/17 and should have arrived on 10/25. I checked on USPS online and it arrived in Philadelphia on 10/20. The last update was it is "in Transit" as of 10/24. I have been to the post office 2 times, but they cannot assist me. So Monday it will be 3 weeks that the package has been "in Transit" and nothing I can do about it.
My question has anything like this happened to anyone out there? How long should I wait to assume our Passports are lost?