If the US Post Office goes away, it will be because the service is nonexistent. Friendly enough people, just slow. Understaffed and slow as (choose your own analogy). No sense of urgency or services like you might find at FedEx or UPS. Came here on a Saturday for a passport renewal. Arrived at 11:00 AM. Still waiting at 12:30. Upon arrival there were several other passport customers ahead of us. The crazy part, they did not have someone working passports the whole time. They seemed to be trying to juggle the mailing & shipping responsibilities with the passport services. Sure it's an hour and a half, but it "feels" longer every time no one works the passport services and more passport customers arrive. My recommendation to you the reader of this review; fly into San Francisco and go to the proper Passport Services. You might save some energy.