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From: smb@ulysses.UUCP (Steven Bellovin)
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Subject: Re: Name Changes (really passports)
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> > I agree with your wife. I don't give anybody my original anything.
> > I'm still waiting for California to return my original birth certificate
> > from when I applied for my passport. It's only been two years.
> > Maybe they have been busy huh?
> >
> 
> I knew California was bizzare, but I didn't know Californians needed passports
> to leave the state.
> 
> United States passports are issued by the US State Department, and can be 
> obtained only through them or US Post Offices.

Wrong, or at least obsolete.  In at least some areas, local government agencies
can act as agents; I believe they get an extra fee from you.  For example,
in Union County, NJ, the court clerk will accept passsport applications.