> There's this old idea (~10 years old) of having the USPS become a PKI-token agency I remember common discussion of this in the early 90s, so way more than 10

> There's this old idea (~10 years old) of having the USPS become a PKI-token agency I remember common discussion of this in the early 90s, so way more than 10 years. It does make a lot of sense. For the vast majority of people the local post office is the nearest federal government office. And the post office already handles passport applications.