FedEx Office Sells the At-Home Passport Photo Too, Not Just the In-Store One

Most comparisons of FedEx Office passport photos treat it as a shop you drive to, weighed against doing it on your phone. That framing does not survive reading their own page, because FedEx sells the phone option as well.

There are three routes here, and they are priced and shaped differently.

The three routes

In store, $15.95. A team member takes the photo, it meets government requirements, and you approve it before it prints. Printed or digital, no appointment.

At home, online. FedEx’s own words: “Prefer the convenience of taking your photo at home? Capture the perfect passport photo using AI technology for enhanced compliance. Choose between instant digital download, printed photos shipped to you, or both for an additional cost.” That is a phone workflow sold by FedEx, competing with the same kind of tool this site makes.

The application itself, via RushMyPassport. They broker expedited applications through a third party that reviews the documents, tracks the case, and confirms the application is complete before it is submitted. FedEx locations will also print the paperwork.

Prices and wording verified on 2026-09-09. An earlier version of this page said $14.95; that was stale.

What the pricing structure tells you

$15.95 covers printed or digital, which is a simpler deal than it first looks. Staples splits the same choice into three SKUs at $19.99, $21.99 and $24.99. Walgreens charges $16.99 and emails the file free. FedEx does not make you decide between paper and file at the counter, though taking both through the online route is described as costing extra with no published figure.

For the online product they publish no standalone price on this page at all, which means the $15.95 headline is answering the in-store question and the at-home question is left to the checkout.

Where the photo sits in the errand

The RushMyPassport partnership is the tell. Like the Post Office and The UPS Store, FedEx is set up around the application rather than around the photograph. Photo, document printing, expediting and shipping are one continuous service, and the photo is the cheapest part of it.

If your application is complicated or time-critical, that bundling is the reason to be there, and comparing the photo price alone would be measuring the wrong thing.

The $1 route, and where it does not fit

One Dollar Passport Photo costs $1. Upload a picture, the background is replaced and the frame is cropped to the 2x2 inch specification, and you see the finished result watermarked before paying. It produces a six-up print sheet plus the digital file. The US passport photo page has the current specification.

Two honest caveats specific to FedEx. First, we cannot cost the print leg here: FedEx Office publishes no per-photo print rate, so unlike a drugstore counter there is no published figure to add to the dollar. Second, FedEx already sells an at-home option, so the choice is not phone against shop. It is which at-home product you use, and theirs comes attached to a brand that can also expedite the application if it turns out you need that.

Nothing about their tool suggests it edits faces. Their description is about compliance checking, and it is worth saying so plainly rather than leaving an implication hanging. Where we differ is price and what happens on rejection, not on whether either service retouches you.