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Great!!
Now just remember to NEVER let it lapse other wise you will have to go through all this agony all over again.

HighHandicap...Who knows why one person gets their plastic in 30 days and others like you and me takes longer.
From the time they received mine until I received my plastc a total of 56 days went by.
I have never had any contact with law enforcement,never had any sort of judgement against me,not behind on any sort of taxes or state or federal loans.
I am squeaky clean.
So who knows.

Thanks guys.
Will be doing the Academy,Sam's,and Wally shuffle later today.

After 56 days my plastic finally arrived in my mailbox yesterday.
I wish it would have came sooner but I am happy I can now legally walk armed.

No plastic when I checked my mailbox yesterday.
I have to work late this evening and probably wont get home before 8:00 p.m. so when I check the mailbox this evening I am pretty sure it will be there.

The good thing is even if it does not get to me today I know for sure it is coming as I am in the ranks of the approved.
Who else is left without plastic of the March class??

Great...Perhaps when I get home today mine will be there too!!

I got home yesterday and went directly to the mail box.
There was the usual mismash of junk mail but then I spied a letter from the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulations!!
I went inside and opened it fully expecting it to be my legal plastic.
And it was.......But it was for my state Electrical license renewel.
However as luck would have it I did stop at the store before getting home and bought a lottery scratch ticket and won a $100.00.
So there was at least some silver lining at the end of the day.
Perhaps I can use that to try and purchase that rare gem called .380 ammo.

Teamless wrote:

SecedeTX wrote:"cruel and unusual"

Yea, I guess I don't understand how the pony express works.
Getting mail (approved on Friday -others received theirs 3 days later), from Austin to Houston, is a task that has been done for ages, and is really only a 1 day turn-around, so it could have been here on Saturday, but I felt that worse case, it would be Monday, but come on, now at least Wednesday!?
I told Quahog that tomorrow, I would not be going home (to let the dogs out at lunch) and would wait very impatiently till after work - or until he messages me that he got his -- I may have to beg him to check my mailbox, to save me the urge to come home and check myself LOL

Hmm....Well after my recent experience with my certified return receipt mail that I sent to the DPS that vanished,untraceable at that, by the postal system and then resurfaced and got there a week later, you will get a good insight about our mail systems sometimes flukey happenings.
Funny things can and do happen.
And, since you were approved on last Friday and myself that next day Saturday lets see who gets theirs first.
Me who lives in N.E. Houston or you who lives in a small town just slightly south of Houston.
Hopefully by this Thursday we will both have received our plastic.

It appears the waiting is about to finally be over.
I came home from a weeks vacation out west last Friday and the website still showed Application Processing.
But then Saturday morning it showed Application Completed License issued or active!!!
I am not quite sure why mine took so long but what the heck,it's in the mail now.
My timeline reads like this.
Class 2/27
Mailed packet via certified mail on 3/1.
Asked for a Pin number by e-mail on 3/24 and discovered that my application was incomplete with letter coming.
Received letter that very day.
Corrected mistake and again sent certified return receipt on3/25.
Due to some unexplained postal mix-up the certified letter vanished and was not even trackable.
DPS receives awol packet on 4/1 and the untrackable return receipt enters my mailbox via the Rio Grand Valley post office on 4/3 (I live in Houston)
The waiting begins again and each day the website says "Processing Application"
I go on a weeks vacation out west and return on Friday 4/23 and the website again says "Processing Application".
I check it again Saturday morning 4/24 and low and behold it says...Application complete License issued or active!!
So any day now the plastic should arrive via our sometimes mysterious postal system.

Good for you Secede.
I checked mine this morning and it's still stuck in the processing application mode.
I am squeaky clean and they received my updated information on 4/1 so I was surely hoping it would have gone through by now.
More so because I am leaving Saturday afternoon for a vacation out west.
Was sure hoping to have that platic by then.
I will check it through out the day but I dont see much chance of getting the card by Saturday at this point.

I am impressed Chadhender was approved that fast.
I sent my fingerprint card with the missing info back to the DPS on 3/25.
I even sent it certified return receipt...And it went Awol in the postal system without even a trace.
Then on Saturday 4/3 the return receipt was in my mailbox.
Man was I sweating that!!
Checked my status that morning and it showed "Processing Application".
So it's my hope this can all be concluded very soon as I am leaving for a weeks vacation on the 17th of this month.
I know I am at least two weeks behind because they received my packet on 3/4 and the letter they sent me about the missing info was dated 3/17.
So after the above mentioned postal system fluke they are just getting started on mine again.

I hope he's right Vic.
In the paper work that came with the application it states in place of birth the city,state,and county.
And as I said getting all that info in that tiny box was NOT easy.
Sloppy at best.

........Got home yesterday and in the mail the state has returned my finger print card and in the letter telling me I left something off.
As I am looking at it I am thinking it's the little box next to race called "ETH" which must stand for ethnicity...I guess??
Then after an interruption by a telephone call I gather up the cards and go into a better lighted room and find what they want.
They have both cards lightly marked with a yellow highlighter at the box "P.O.B."...I get it place of birth!!
But..This LITTLE rectangle is exactly half an inch wide and exactly 3/8th of an inch tall.
I can't believe they want me to put the name of the city,state and county I was born in there!!
More in the box next to it it says "LEAVE BLANK"....So as best I could I put the information in that minature box.
A bit of a rant here.
Do they actually believe a man with real man size hands can print that much info legibly in such a small confined space???
How did all you others do this??
Any way it's heading back to Austin via certified return receipt this morning.
Jeez!!

Well rats!!!
I got tired of not having a pin number so I e-mailed for one only to find this...Application incomplete-missing information-Detailed letter has been sent.
I cant imagine what I did wrong as I looked over my paper work at least three times before sending it.
I guess I will find out soon enough.

Looking over a lot of others time lines in which they have received their plastic in hand on this forum I think I will just sit tight and be patient and just wait for it to arrive.
The application has been in their hands exactly two weeks to the day so I must assume I will get a pin number in the mail very soon.
And being that my only contact with Law enforcement has been a very few speeding tickets through out my life I cant imagine why it would take longer than a few more weeks to receive the license.
Any way here's waiting for it and hopefully all you other March applicants get yours very soon too.