Just read on twitter, it’s taking up to 7 days to send out passports, then 1 or 2 days delivery, but from this forum a few people have had them the day after they were printed, so hopefully the ones waiting for the 18th, should be printed by end of the week. They really need to clear this backlog that has been created. All I can think is, thank god the next passport I need to renew is in a couple years (my husband’s), and by then the backlog should be gone.