📍 CALIFORNIA
Oakland Main Post Office
Post Office (USPS) · Oakland
The Oakland Main Post Office anchors the city's West Oakland waterfront at 1675 7th Street, a short hop from the Amtrak and BART corridors that funnel commuters between the East Bay and San Francisco.
Location & contact
📍 Location & contact
📖 About this office
The Oakland Main Post Office anchors the city's West Oakland waterfront at 1675 7th Street, a short hop from the Amtrak and BART corridors that funnel commuters between the East Bay and San Francisco. As the flagship USPS branch for a city of roughly 440,000 people, it handles a steady stream of first-time passport applications alongside its regular retail counter.
Staff here process new adult books, applications for children under 16, and name-change replacements that cannot be renewed by mail. Because this location sits near the Port of Oakland and serves a large maritime and travel-oriented community, it tends to fill its appointment slots quickly ahead of summer and the winter holidays.
If you are weighing which branch to visit, this is the busiest of Oakland's acceptance windows; the quieter Oakland neighborhood offices listed on our city page can be an easier booking during peak weeks.
💡 Good to know
Passport acceptance at this branch is handled by appointment, which you reserve through the USPS scheduler at tools.usps.com/rcas. Bring your completed DS-11, proof of citizenship, a photo ID with a copy, and separate payments for the State Department fee and the USPS execution fee. This West Oakland location does not always offer on-site photos, so it is worth confirming when you book or arriving with a compliant photo in hand. For other nearby windows, see the full Oakland office list.