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eliminator46 wrote:I am an April Applicant, and now I am legally Packing the plastic. OOH RAH

racer_13b wrote:Well I checked my mailbox this afternoon and NO PLASTIC!

I’m starting to think that Newman from the TV show Seinfeld is my mailman and is holding my CHL hostage.

Leroy wrote:I finally got my plastic. I submitted everything to DPS the first week of April, and got my license in the mail on Saturday..Aug. 29! About 6 weeks ago a I emailed my State Rep and his office contacted DPS and expedited the completion of the application. At that point the application was in the background check process. It still took six weeks from the suppposed expediting, until I got the license. I am just glad I finally got it...but the performance of our gommint is an abomination!!!!

dicion wrote:Hoo Whee!

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My Call to DPS
All personally identifying information of all parties has been removed

Let it be said that I am not that great on the phone.

My question, that I was trying to point out to her, was why did it take so long for them to notify me of the missing info, when statute requires them to send it out for background check within 30 days?
They received it 4/8, they had until 5/8 to get it out the door for background checks, she said that they didn't even enter it into the system until 5/17 or 18.. can't remember, and then they didn't notice the missing info until 6/7... 2 months after they recieved it.

Also, she says that they sent it out for BG Check on 6/10. Statute requires the BG check take no longer then 60 days. I am already past that number by HER information

I felt like arguing it further with her, that even if they considered that Day '1' of my application, restarted, that they are still past the 60 day window on that.

I decided to just cut my losses, and end the call.

Also.. I habe a code, hence my sounding all stuffed up

Also, for those wondering about the legality of recording phone calls:

Texas's wiretapping law is a "one-party consent" law. Texas makes it a crime to intercept or record any "wire, oral, or electronic communication" unless one party to the conversation consents. Texas Penal Code § 16.02

Federal law permits recording telephone calls and in-person conversations with the consent of at least one of the parties. See 18 U.S.C. 2511(2)(d). This is called a "one-party consent" law. Under a one-party consent law, you can record a phone call or conversation so long as you are a party to the conversation.

And I Fully consented to my recording of my call

FishermanCool wrote: Plastic was in the mail box yesterday

geekwagun wrote:I decided to call DPS today, just hung up the phone with a nice person who answered. I was told that all the information is in and she would give my info to the supervisor to send it off for printing. Status on-line showed "Process...." so well see if that changes soon, I will be check daily now!

rtschl wrote:I almost hate to celebrate when so many have waited longer. But I got my plastic today!!! I have checked the mail every day since my status changed. I am working from home today and checked it as soon as the postman was gone.

Hope everyone else that is still waiting gets theirs real soon!

Ron

FishermanCool wrote:Today is my day! Application Completed - license issued or certificate active. Only 130 short days.

bb281 wrote:Application Completed - license issued or certificate active

FishermanCool wrote:Weekly call to the DPS today around 12, same song 42nd verse Waiting on Harris County Background Check. Was not in a very good humor, so I decided to write an e-mail to Rick Perry. Received response from his staff within 45 minutes. 2 hours after that the DPS called me to say they had located my completed BG check and my licenses was on the way to the printers and I should have in my hands within 10 days. Things that make you go Hmmmm...

dicion wrote:

gwtrikenut wrote:Wonder how many post offices our permits go to before being delivered to our homes?
I had a card from my vet for my dog go from his office on FM2920 in Spring to Memphis, Tn. and back to me in Spring. Never could figure that one out.

He probably put too much postage on it, so the USPS Decided to send it on a trip worthy of it's excessive postage!