Originally Posted by
Infinite1K
You mentioned you live in California, yet you mailed it to Philadelphia. Did you request expedited service?
According to the State Depatment website, if you live in CA you should be sending it to Irving, TX. Philadelphia is for expedited requests only and/or you live somewhere other than California, Florida, Illinois, Minnesota, New York, or Texas.
Assuming he submitted at a typical passport acceptance location: my experience when submitting domestically at a post office - is that it is the agent processing the application who determines what office it is sent and not the applicant. I suspect it is the same in the poster's case....?