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hheremtp wrote:jsimmons you forgot one.

3.8 Conduct cavity search of applicant.

They couldn't find anyone willing to ride a horse AND do the cavity searches.

joe817 wrote:There are only 4 categories of messages that the DPS website has:
1. Packet mailed to Applicant (for those that applied online)
2. Processing Application
3. Incomplete Information - Letter Mailed to Applicant
and
4. Processing Complete - License Active or Issued.

It's a shame they don't have 2 or 3 more categories, to keep applicants off their back and better informed, but they don't.

Yeah, like the following (your original ones are in blue):

1. Packet mailed to Applicant (for those that applied online)

1.5 Received application from applicant

1.6 Inspecting packet for extra forms

1.6.1 Determining if extra forms warrant detailed letter

1.7 Lunch (10:30-2:30)

1.8 Wiping spilled coffee off of fingerprint cards

1.8.1 Reject fingerprint cards as unusable

1.8.2 Throw passport pictures into trash with discarded (unneeded) forms.

2. Incomplete Information - Letter Mailed to Applicant because:

a) Missing passport photos

b) Unusable fingerprint cards (stained with coffee)

c) Payment refused - drawn on bank that isn't in financial trouble

d) Applicant doesn't have health care

3. Processing Application

3.1 Dispatch Pony Express rider to one or more county courts to personally conduct background check. State labor laws prevent rider from traveling between 5pm and 9am (evening hours), and each again between 10:30am and 2:30 pm (lunch).

3.2 Conduct surveillance on applicant

3.3 Analyze satellite photos of applicant's property

3.4 Analyze applicants internet browsing habits

3.5 Obtain okay from Obama for applicant to get a license for anything

3.6 Obtain and sift through 30 days of garbage generated by applicant's household

3.7 Locate and analyze all bodily excretions in the last five years.

4. Processing Complete - License Active or Issued.

4 (a) Application denied (Pony Express rider missing)

4 (b) Application denied (this is No Activation Wednesday)

4 (c) Application denied (because we can)

4 (d) Application denied (you'll shoot your eye out)

5. Printing license

6. License mailed to applicant

Why would they print it before the application is finished being processed?

Wow - 40 days. There's hope for the rest who've recently submitted their packets (barring a brain-fart on our part as far as the contents goes).