This morning I went to consular outreach program at La Meridian in Phuket to apply for a new passport.
They used to take your old passport to Bangkok and send new one within a few days. No More.
Now they send all passports back to the US and it takes 2-3 weeks to get a new one.
Even if you apply in Bangkok they send back to the states, so no more getting a new passport the next day.
Luckily I'm not planning on leaving the country in the next few weeks, but it still feels weird not to have a passport for that length of time.