Passport renewal times have gotten much better. The past two years the process of renewing has been extremely slow. Sometimes taking several months, even when expedited. The State Dept. put out a news brief saying that they have streamlined the process and it should be much shorter. I was due to have mine renewed and with upcoming trips scheduled, my wife was stressing about it due to all the bad news about how long it takes. Truthfully…..not that long now. I snail mailed my application on December 29th, paying for expedited service and express mail return. It arrived on January the 11th, making it back in only two weeks.