I had lost my expired passport and I'm leaving on the WC. Getting on this cruise last minute along with the required visa's I wasn't going to trust the post office so I hired a local passport service to make sure I got all this done. They prepared all my documents and sent me to the post office to have it all approved and sealed.

I stood in line and then the lady looked and said she could not approve it, the visa to China could not be issued until 30 days before departure. So I didn't have a reason for a expedited passport so that wasn't going to happen either. I wondered aloud that why was she denying me a passport and demanded to see her supervisor. She picked up the phone and said she would call the State Dept. (which I doubt).

I tried to explain that the boat left on the 13th and would be in Indonesia by the time 30 days came around. No one had heard of a world cruise before and it was turning into amateur hour. I went back to the passport service and they sent someone back with me. She turned eight shades of red but still would not process my application. That night she called me at home and told that the passport service was corrupt and that she could do all of this for me if I paid all their fees.

I went back to the passport service, they took me to another Post Office and the application was excepted and sealed in 5 minutes.

If I had used the friendly postal employee I would not have a passport and I would be sitting at the dock watching the Voyager sail off into the sunset. Hearing my attorney laughing out loud that I wanted to sue the Post Office for the price of a World Cruise.