The Washington Post Travel Tips section posted an interesting story about how to renew your passport easily online. Here's the link. https://wapo.st/3MehsCg
I posted earlier on someone's thread that I quickly renewed online on Feb 2 and it arrived in the mail on Feb 16 under regular processing request.
Need a subscription to see article.
EDIT-- 1st time through I missed the part to provide and email address to get to the 'read it' part
Hmmm. I gifted the link. It should have opened. Anyone else have a problem with it?
WaPo makes people register to open articles even when they are gifted.
The only caveat I would add is that if you are getting older as I am, it turns out that the website BOT that scans you can mistake normal facial lines around the eyes as "wearing glasses" and demands you take them off... which is hard to do when your not wearing any. Then you have to do it by mail the old fashioned way. Good luck. Don't procrastinate.