So whats taking so long?

[lionswrath79]

Yea, I forgot it was a holiday Monday and no mail went out. Fixin to go check the mail and see if maybe they can get it to me in under 7 days

[lionswrath79]

Alright, 12 days an counting since it went active!! I just love how efficienct our state offices are at sending something in the mail, never new it took 12 days to mail something from Austin to DFW!! Love beauracracy more and more each day, quick to take your money and slow to produce results!! Just plain ridiculous, maybe by some slim chance it will be in the mail today after 13days, brings the total time to around 80 days.

[lionswrath79]

13 days and counting since it went active and still nothing, gotta love that. Just for giggles I checked online for my status and now it says "No application or license/certificate active?????" What does this mean and why is nothing active now, did they change their mind all of sudden or is this normal?

Edit: Just got off the phone with them and was told it was issued Feb. 9th!!! Apparently this is a USPS moronic mess up as I know it doesnt take almost 20 days to mail something from Austin to Ft. Worth!! Either way, looks like I have to wait till next Friday (march 9th) before they will reissue another license, go figure!! Would have only figured it would happen to my license of all the ones that go out

[troglodyte]

Don't be too hasty to blame the USPS.

Mine issue date was almost two months before I saw it in the mail. Apparently just because it is issued doesn't mean it's going anywhere except to a pile on the next desk.

Wife still hasn't seen her's......Damaged from manufacturer and had to be sent back...to the Abyss.

[lionswrath79]

Yeah, still no license and almost 30 days since it was issued!! Dont know if it was the morons at USPS sticking it in the wrong mailbox, dropping in the truck, whatever, or those incompetent morons taking their sweet time sending it out? I highly doubt it was the state as they reissue a lost or stolen license after 30 days, which would be March 9th. I sure cant wait, maybe it will take them another 30 days to mail it from Austin to Ft. Worth!! What are the odds that the USPS would lose that one piece of mail that took 65 days to send out!!

[thankGod]

Hey guys and gals,

I read in an earlier post about 90 "working days". I thought it was 90 calender days. Are ya'll counting calender or working days?

[lionswrath79]

I still remember hearing my instructor saying 60 days, I dont know where this 90 business came from? Either way, I spoke with someone last week and he said that they reissue licenses as lost/stolen after 30 days that it becomes active, that must be their 90 day period. Gives those morons a little bit longer to take their sweet time issuing a license that one pays $140 for!! Funny, they can issue a DL in about 20 days, so to me they should take about 20 days MAX to issue and have the license out once your fingerprints are added to the govt. database as part of your "background" check!!

[5111]

I mailed the wife's in and it was received on Feb 6, but as of today, Mar 6, they still do not show that they have received it. I called in to speak with someone and make sure that it had not gotten lost and was told that it takes 4-6 weeks to get it entered into the system and that until that time they can't tell me anything. When I sent mine in last year it only took 2 weeks. My father-in-law sent his in after my wife and his already shows "Processing Application". Who knows what is going on?

[Lobo73]

If you think of how many instuctors there are and how many classes are offered throughout the state, it would not be wrong to guess that they see more than 1,000 new applications per month. At $140 per application times 12 months, that's at least $1.7M revenue per year. Not sure of their operating costs, but if new applications are processed at an average of 70-80 days, the profit margin is substantial. I, personally, would love to know how the state utilizes those monies and why they don't put more back into the processing of applications.

[Charles L. Cotton]

Hey guys and gals,

I read in an earlier post about 90 "working days". I thought it was 90 calender days. Are ya'll counting calender or working days?

The statute does not specify "working" days, thus all time limits are calendar days.

Due to a typo, DPS may be able to take up to 90 days to issue or deny an initial license, but only if they waited a full 30 days after receipt of your application to send it to their local "designee." Until very recently, DPS took the high ground and admitted Legislative intent was for a 60 day time limit from the day the license was received by DPS. I don't know if they have changed that position. This typo needs to be corrected in 2009.

The language for renewals is correct; they have 45 days from the date DPS first received your application to issue or deny a renewal.

Chas.

[aardwolf]

Yeah, still no license and almost 30 days since it was issued!! Dont know if it was the morons at USPS sticking it in the wrong mailbox, dropping in the truck, whatever, or those incompetent morons taking their sweet time sending it out? I highly doubt it was the state as they reissue a lost or stolen license after 30 days, which would be March 9th. I sure cant wait, maybe it will take them another 30 days to mail it from Austin to Ft. Worth!! What are the odds that the USPS would lose that one piece of mail that took 65 days to send out!!

When it shows up, tell us the date on the postmark and the date you got it. I had one that was postmarked a week or more after DPS "mailed it" according to the guy on the phone.

[troglodyte]

OK, let me see if I this muddles everything up.

Law (renewal or new) says X number of days to issue. It does not say when they have to get your license to you. Am I right?

If so, They issued my renewal well under the 45 day limit but took seven weeks to get it to me.

So it looks like the DPS can "issue" a license but has no obligation to get it to you in what we normal folks would consider a timely fashion.

Am I in the ballpark with this thinking or have I missed something?

[lionswrath79]

If you think of how many instuctors there are and how many classes are offered throughout the state, it would not be wrong to guess that they see more than 1,000 new applications per month. At $140 per application times 12 months, that's at least $1.7M revenue per year. Not sure of their operating costs, but if new applications are processed at an average of 70-80 days, the profit margin is substantial. I, personally, would love to know how the state utilizes those monies and why they don't put more back into the processing of applications.

ME TOO!! Im sure it doesnt go towards anything of use such as infrastructure rebuilds, BORDER PROTECTION, education, probably goes into some general fund that our corrupt, scumbag politicians blow on some useless project that they think is a great idea!! Or worse, into their pockets when they raise their benefits and salary at their own discretion!! Either way, I am just irritated, thats all, I figured it should have been here by now!!

[lionswrath79]

YAY!!! I just got off the phone with DPS and as we were going through the process of reporting a lost/stolen license and arguging about WHY I WOULD HAVE TO PAY A FEE IF I NEVER RECEIVED THE LICENSE, they found that it was returned as undeliverable from those idiots at the USPS!! Now, do I believe that? Possibly, there has been a bought of morons that are apparently dislecsic and put #915's mail in mine at #916 and so forth, so its very possible that one of those idiots put it in the wrong box. On the other hand, what are the odds it was sitting on someones desk and was never mailed in the first place? Either way, she supposedly put it in the mail today, so we will see 3 days from now if it arrives? What a fine process these folks have, I verified my address 5 times to make sure it was correct, so who knows what moron messed up where!!??

Now at roughly 80 days if you subtract the weekends and holidays!!

[lionswrath79]

YAY, it FINALLY GOT HERE TODAY!!! It has been so long that I wasnt even excited about it anymore!!