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Since I first posted, I looked in the mail a couple of days ago, and poof!!! There was the new plastic...

That guy in Austin LIED to me!!! he said ten working days...I got it from issued to in the maibox in about 3-4...

Bottom line, patience is a virtue!!!

My first renewal (1998, if I recall correctly, I forget its been a long time) took 17 days from mailbox to mailbox...I don't believe anyone has beaten that one...But maybe someone has, who knows...

pbwalker wrote:How long are y'all seeing the time difference between "Manufacturing" and "Mailed"? Few days?

Austin told me 10 working days...From the point of "issue"...

I figure they have to milk the plastic cow, pasturize the process, let it cure, get the ink supply refilled from Office depot, pay a union guy/gal to service the printer, heat up the laminating machine, test it by burning one's finger, taking that person to the hospital for this terrible trauma, come back (the next day) and print it all out, get a certified laminator (Laminators Local BR-549), let it all cool down, get someone to place it in an envelope, lick the stamp and seal the envelop, put it into the outgoing mail, where it will sit for another day or so, then it makes that magical trip to the post office where it is sorted and sent on a wagon pulled by oxen to Houston to yet another post office, sorted, then sent out in one of those white looking box trucks to the nearest Denny's for breakfast, then its off to Luby's for lunch...Then about 2-4pm that day it winds up in my mailbox...

And to think we have never seen this process on Mr. Roger's nieghborhood when Fred was still alive...Geesh...

Sent my renewal package in in the first week of January, called yesterday to check on the status, and they said it has been issued, and should get the "new: plastic in in about ten days...

BTW, I did a bad thing and let the certification lapse this time, my bad, I thought I had till next year, this year to renew...But I got 'er dun...

I did not have to send in fingerprints, photos, just the course completion form, $35, and copy of my DD-214 (again, just in case) and a stamp on the snailmail envelope...

I suspect that I will have to send in a new electronic set of fingerprints, and maybe a new photo next time, cuz I ain't gettin' any younger, but that is way down the road...