Originally Posted by
Hipplewm
They definitely mail it somewhere - only the State Department can issue Passports - the USPS just collects the data - you can just as easily mail in the application yourself.
If you mail it in yourself there are several agencies that depending on what state you live in, you mail to a certain place. I do not know if those are the same places the USPS mails too.
I didn't look at the return address when my Daughter's passport was mailed to us.
Here are a list of places it could possibly be sent:
https://travel.state.gov/content/tra...-agencies.html
FWIW
When USPS send the application to for review and where the passport is printed doesn’t have to be the same place. I was asked to mail in additional documentation to VA. I included tracking and a two days after delivery of the additional documentation, I got notice that application was approved and shipped that same day. The passport originated from Little Rock, AR while the supporting docs were sent to VA.