You still have to apparently go in person to pick it up, how is that an insane system? Now you have to go twice. edit: I mean you can renew a US passport purel

You still have to apparently go in person to pick it up, how is that an insane system? Now you have to go twice. edit: I mean you can renew a US passport purely by mail without ever interacting with anyone and I haven't heard of massive issues caused by that.