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LOL....just killing time.....

Oh well...excuse my boredom :)




I'll move along on my own :)

Being the Geek I am...I thought DPS website needed a lil "something"...

But I am here to share a "positive"....after 2 months...my status on the websight tells me "application processing".....the fingerprint card thing really screwed me. I know they already have the background check from Kendall County cuz I ask the DPS officer that does it :)

Cuz it sits in their mail room for days.

Paid online 6/26/2009
Received Package 7/11/2009
CHL Class 7/18/2009
Mailed Package 7/21/2009
DPS WebSite says Application Incomplete 7/25/2009
Spoke with DPS 7/27/2009 DPS sez Pictures not signed/DD214N missing/Fingerprint cards not filled out. Lil girl said they had mailed a "detailed" letter.
Received Package/letter from DPS with just one picture to be signed 7/31/2009
Signed and sent back to DPS 7/31/2009
Verified DPS had it 8/4/2009
Took Utah CHL Class 8/8/2009
Mailed in Utah Package 8/10/2009
Received confirmation Utah is processing application 8/18/2009
As of 8/18/2009 DPS WebSite still says "Application Incomplete"
8/21/09 Sent email requesting aknowledgement that my application is complete.
8/22/09 Received a package today from DPS. Had a letter telling me the DOB on my fingerprint card was not in the proper format. I had put X/XX/XXXX and they wanted XX/XX/XXXX. So I put a 0 in front of the nine for the month and mailed it back.
9/1/2009 Received an email from Rene at DPS asking if I had received my letter. He also stated my fingerprint card had been rejected.
9/2/2009 Called DPS and spoke with a very nice young lady who told me they had received my fingerprint card and it was good. She also stated Rene should not have worded his email that way. I thanked her and told her I had heard they got like 50 temps to help out. She said no they had gotten 4 new temps to help process.
9/4/2009 "Application Incomplete" still on Texas DPS website. Utah tells me they have received my background check and are processing :) As a native Texan I am ashamed of our State DPS frankly. Just no excuse for this incompetence and inefficiencies.

Yes I am aware DPS is not advocating managing my health care friend. I am referencing in a broader sense the Government in general and Government "services"....

I hear what your saying friend....but....just to be slow and lazy does not account for the facts DPS is playing "games" here outside/above and beyond just incompetence. I mean being lazy does not account for one letter stating your app is incomplete because a picture isn't signed.....then almost a month later saying "Oh now it is incomplete because your birth date format is incorrect".....that is flat out in your face roadblocks to the process.
I wonder how many people give up? Is that their plan? That we will just give up? Does the State of Texas really want it's citizens armed? Trained and carrying? If you listen to the politicians the answer is yes. But actions speak louder than words where I am from.

I am convinced (no I am not a conspiracy fruit nor wear a tin foil hat) that the real issue is not resources to process applications nor background checks. That is way too easy to resolve.....I am convinced it is management at DPS does not like gun carrying law abiding citizens. Maybe middle management or maybe upper management...but as business owner myself for over 30 years I can say without hesitation that if there is an issue and one really wants to fix it you can....and if you do not wish to fix it you can throw up as many obstacles as possible to make it die on the vine.
Somebody or a group of management at DPS is anti gun.

Paid online 6/26/2009
Received Package 7/11/2009
CHL Class 7/18/2009
Mailed Package 7/21/2009
DPS WebSite says Application Incomplete 7/25/2009
Spoke with DPS 7/27/2009 DPS sez Pictures not signed/DD214N missing/Fingerprint cards not filled out. Lil girl said they had mailed a "detailed" letter.
Received Package/letter from DPS with just one picture to be signed 7/31/2009
Signed and sent back to DPS 7/31/2009
Verified DPS had it 8/4/2009
Took Utah CHL Class 8/8/2009
Mailed in Utah Package 8/10/2009
Received confirmation Utah is processing application 8/18/2009
As of 8/18/2009 DPS WebSite still says "Application Incomplete"
8/21/09 Sent email requesting aknowledgement that my application is complete.
8/22/09 Received a package today from DPS. Had a letter telling me the DOB on my fingerprint card was not in the proper format. I had put X/XX/XXXX and they wanted XX/XX/XXXX. So I put a 0 in front of the nine for the month and mailed it back.

I dunno. But I know what happens when you send BOTH signed and two that are not signed now dont I?:)
Last time. I sent in 4 because that is what the instructor gave all of us in class. We signed two and sent all 4 in.

Well I got the letter today. I had sent in 4 photos ( they require two) and they sent one photo back that didn't have my signature on it....Duh....yes I sent you two signed like the State ask and two were not signed nor required.......
The "funny thing here is...when I spoke with the lil girl she said DD214N was missing and fingerprint cards were not properly filled out also.....Got the letter and now all they said was missing or incomplete was this one photo signature....
Somebody is smoking crack in Austin.
I say again...Thank you God for the Utah non res program.
I will continue to play the Government game.....and these banana's want to manage my health care?