Those days are pretty much over. Now we can be own travel agents through the power of the internet. No more need for long waits, expensive travel agent booking fees, or anything like that. Now we can actually go to the airliner or Cruise Company, select our own package and we're good to go. There are also discount airfare and cruise websites which add a significant amount to your savings now. However, if you're traveling out of the country, you will need to
get passports.
In the area of getting a new or renewal US passport, there have been many exciting, helpful changes to facilitate that process as well. If you would like, you could still go through the slow and inefficient government runarounds - and get passports within 1-3 months - but, why go through all of that, unless you are a glutton for punishment! Is it necessary for you to get passports within a few hours? 24 hours? Obviously, you would need your passport mailed to you overnight at the most, or available for pickup that same day. Even if your trip will not take happen for a few weeks or even a month, do you really want to leave it in the hands of the federal government to botch everything up for you, miss the mark, which in turn makes you miss your trip?
There are now much more efficient ways to
get passports in cases of emergency or just last minute decisions - or, to compensate for laziness. There are a good number of websites that will expedite the processing of your passport, and you are able to get it the same day, if it is so needed.
You would naturally still have to pay the regular government fees for your passport, but in addition, it would be required for you to pay these government authorized, third-party companies that provide expedited US passports and visa services. The cost of the expediting process differs in regards to how soon you may need your US passport. Of course if the sooner that you need your passport, the more the additional fee will be. As mentioned before, you can get passports within a matter of hours, or if you have the time, have it in your hands in two weeks.
For more details please visit:
http://www.expresspassport.com/
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