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knb wrote:Postage machine dated 05-05-2010, Post Office marks dated 05-05-2010, Delivered 148 miles away 05-10-2010 but it is still PLASTIC!


Now for the editorial, if the Federal Government runs the Postal Service this well, I bet we will really love ☭bamacare!

freestonerider wrote:PLASTIC!!!

Congrats you two!

Now get out there and do your Wally Walk!

baseballfreekngp wrote:PLASTIC

Congrats! I think that just leaves knb (plastic should be there today, right?) and redlin. Come on y'all! Let's close out March on a high note!

Thanks all! It has been fun hanging out in the waiting room with you folks. Now maybe I can contribute to the main forum a bit more now that I'm an official CHL holder.

My first trip out while carrying was thankfully uneventful. It was a bit of a challenge as I was walking around an outdoor shopping area with my 1yr old daughter. This required a lot of bending over and kneeling which are the motions most prone to printing. The rest of the time, I didn't think about it much.

Ok, time to go enjoy my family. Catch you all later.

PLASTIC!!!

Heading out the door for lunch so my first carry experience will be Maggiano's Little Italy for lunch and I'll get a Wally Walk in tonight or tomorrow.

Hope yours gets there soon knb!

knb wrote:Well, unfortunately I can't help today. Still no plastic even though it said Mailed on the 4th. Clearly there is a process since I got a package fron Utah today that was sent on the 4th. Maybe tomorrow?

Well you'll be sick about this then... someone posted in the general waiting room thread that their license mailed on the 5th and arrived today. I sure hope we get that lucky!

No plastic today, but I wasn't really expecting it since it just mailed yesterday.

I think the hard thing about being in "mailed" status is that there is no longer any reason to check the DPS website. Too bad they couldn't update with mail status, "License left Austin postal sorting facility on 5/7/10"... I guess that's not very likely though. ;)

To complete our discussion on "mailed", the response I got from DPS was that my license was issued on 5/6/10 and I should allow time for delivery... there was no indication of what "issued" or "mailed" means. I'm going to be an optimist and assume that both mean that it was actually put in the mail yesterday or today. Yes, I know that being an assuming optimist is a recipe for disaster. As I was frequently reminded in the Army, hope is not a strategy!

** Edited to correct the date from April to May. D'Oh!

knb wrote:

HighHandicap wrote:WOOHOO!! I'm also now in the "Mailed" status!! Since I live in Pflugerville (on the North border of Austin) maybe I'll get my license today or tomorrow! I hope it's today because I'm wearing my Wally Walk Aloha shirt and my CrossBreed SuperTuck (no pistol, of course). I'm hoping that the license was actually mailed yesterday or Wednesday and it took the system a day or two to update to mailed status.

You can guarantee I'll be stalking that mailbox this afternoon and this weekend!

Hate to be a party pooper but don't hold your breath. Mine went to Mailed on Tuesday and as of yesterday it wasn't in the mailbox. Austin to Houston shouldn't be more than a day either. I have a feeling that going to "Mailed" means it has been created and sent to a group to package and mail but not necessarily "in the mailbox" like we would like to interpret it.

Always bringing me down!

I emailed our helpful friend Rene at DPS to find out if "Mailed" means mailed or something else. If nothing else, I'm sure it will be here early next week. At least I don't feel like the last one picked for the dodgeball team any more. I'm pretty sure I'll be heading down to Katy in June. I'll be sure to touch base with y'all before I head down there so we can all get together for a drink.

WOOHOO!! I'm also now in the "Mailed" status!! Since I live in Pflugerville (on the North border of Austin) maybe I'll get my license today or tomorrow! I hope it's today because I'm wearing my Wally Walk Aloha shirt and my CrossBreed SuperTuck (no pistol, of course). I'm hoping that the license was actually mailed yesterday or Wednesday and it took the system a day or two to update to mailed status.

You can guarantee I'll be stalking that mailbox this afternoon and this weekend!

Teamless wrote:HH, after all this grief, if you live in the Houston (south) area, after you get your plastic, I will have to take you out for a beer (weapon-less of course!)

Teamless, I'm up in Austin, but I get down to Katy every month or two. Next time I'm heading down there, I'll send you a PM. Heck, I might even be down there on the same weekend as an IDPA type match.

heeler wrote:HighHandicap...Who knows why one person gets their plastic in 30 days and others like you and me takes longer.
From the time they received mine until I received my plastc a total of 56 days went by.
I have never had any contact with law enforcement,never had any sort of judgement against me,not behind on any sort of taxes or state or federal loans.
I am squeaky clean.
So who knows.

I understand what you're saying. My best guess, as others have suggested, is that it just depends on which one of the Techs gets your application. There are probably other factors that come into play like living in other states and moving around a lot. I just strive to find some logic in it all and it frustrates me that there isn't any.

I usually only check my mail once or twice a week, but since I learned I was approved last Saturday, I've been checking every day even though it would seem they haven't mailed it to me yet. It's a sickness!

Teamless wrote:

Teamless wrote:but good grief this waiting is getting unbearable!

I just thought of something.
With the new way (as of May 1) of applying, I wonder if there is more back-end work that has to be done for manufacturing than before?

Regardless, one would think that I was complete or near complete before the May 1st changeover. I don't understand how it takes so long to print these suckers up? The DMV can get a new license printed in a couple of days. Hopefully she was just being conservative with her dates when she said one to two weeks, but it has already been a week since it's been "sent to manufacturing".

To hold myself over, I just ordered a Glock 19 from Buds. I keep telling myself it's for the wife, but it's not. It will compete with my FNP9 to be my carry/IDPA weapon.

Man, I wonder why mine is taking so flipping long!? I called today and was told that my application had been sent to be printed and it would be 1 to 2 weeks before I receive it. Are you kidding me?? Why would mine take 45ish days when everyone else who submitted at the same time took 20-30 days?

Ok, I'm done whining (for now), but good grief this waiting is getting unbearable!

knb wrote:Another good day today. Just got to the office and cleared a few things so I could play. Overnight my status went from Manufacturing to Mailed. Looks like I should have plastic real soon!

Man, I always seem to be lagging the other 3/29 submittals! I'm still in the Manufacturing status. Ah well, at least I'm approved. Come on Plastic!!! I'm ready for you!

redlin67 wrote:Today wasn't to be, I am still stuck at the background review.

Sorry to hear it redlin; maybe the system just didn't update today. I'm betting that they still lag by 24 hours or so. I'm still waiting for my license to be "manufactured", but I did get my Wally Walk shirt in the mail. It isn't the gaudiest Aloha shirt ever, but it is fairly tacky. My wife is part Hawaiian, so I've already got a huge collection of Aloha shirts... and I'm going to stop rambling about Aloha shirts!

See what happens when you've been waiting for your plastic for 30 days!!