Post office to open June 17 for passports

    Is international travel coming up in the future? The first item on a travel checklist should be a passport.
    The Holyoke Post Office is offering a special passport fair Saturday, June 17, from 9 a.m.-2 p.m. at 226 S. Interocean Ave.
    “Our post office is pleased to host this special passport fair event,” said Holyoke Postmaster Steven Starkebaum. “We will provide extra postal staffing for the fair so that all applications will be processed quickly and efficiently.”
    There are two travel documents that can be applied for — the passport book and the passport card.
    The passport book can be used for most international travel worldwide. The less costly passport card may only be used for land and sea travel between the United States and Canada, Mexico, Bermuda or the Caribbean.
    Both the passport card and the passport book have the same validity period: 10 years for an adult and five years for children age 15 and younger.

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