Supposedly, my wife and I will receive our renewed passports tomorrow. Supposedly.
Did you get a notice they were shipped? If so, maybe their systems are working again. The online status never changed, and we had no idea when they would show up. It was a surprise when we opened the mailbox and found them (different days - we paid for the expensive expedited process for one and it was faster than without, but still took 9 weeks to arrive).
I check USPS Informed Delivery every day. They were shipped on the 11th, and Informed Delivery says they are out for delivery today.
I guess I saw them through USPS as well, but nothing from mytravelgov. No emails, no change to status through online portal, nothing. And there were plenty of days you couldn’t logon. It was stressful for my wife who had tickets oversea. She had to cancel her trip and reschedule and it was a big impact for her work project.
Which I can get when I apply for the passport. Minnesota hasn’t offered an enhanced ID until just recently. As I will need to update my address on my driver’s license, I can apply for it when I go to change the address. But I don’t have it right now.
You need some paperwork. SS card, proof of address and proof of citizenship (e.g, birth certificate, notarized). But you will get it back a lot faster than a passport.
Thanks @eschereal. Already working on it. I need a couple of birth certificate copies because I’ll want one when I apply for SSI. Odd that I don’t recall needing them for previous passport requests.
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Pretty much!
Santa Fe is a fifteen hundred feet higher than Denver, so they do get 20 odd inches of snow a year despite the relatively low latitude. They’re probably at least as well equipped to deal with snow as any city west of the Cascades.
I like the Seattle area from what little I’ve seen of it, and living in Eugene I miss being near a big city.
Eugene is pretty damn big, as towns go.
Update on the postponed trip. I might have missed a bullet as Canadian border guards are now on a work slowdown as their union contract is up for renewal. The Vancouver friend who was originally going to fetch me across the border (or visit me if I couldn’t get across) belongs to the same union and is expected to toe the line, so she can’t cross the border by car right now as she is expected to stand behind the slowdown. I get it, but… we are both relieved that this is not an issue now.
I don’t see Santa Fe’s 20 inches of snow to be an issue for me as I know how to drive in blizzards. I’m more concerned about the altitude and my ability to breathe and keep my heart beating. I’ve had altitude sickness.
By Oregon standards, perhaps. To me “big” means comparable to L.A., Chicago, NYC, etc. I’m not hating on Eugene or Oregon, but I was a little disappointed to learn that no city in the state operates a comprehensive public research library (e.g. like the central locations of LAPL, NYPL, Chicago PL etc.). But I recognize we’re a small state, basically like Kansas only with Democrats, and being in a less urban setting does offer advantages in other areas of my life.
LOL, I used to live in Kansas, and that’s an awesome description of Oregon. 
My former boss grew up in Wichita. When he was 16, his family took a vacation to Colorado Springs. He looked around and thought, fuck Kansas. The next year he was in western Washington, making it on his own.