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haha well at least you got it - congrats man!

stay strong, brother. Feel free to send the BGs on your side of town my way, at least until you get yours tomorrow ;)

PLASTIC IN HAND!!! :-D

ha! you seem to have your finger on the pulse of how I feel tonight :)

boo!

Hopefully we will both have them tomorrow. My local wally world is just begging to be walked :)

cdoug88 wrote:where do you live djjoshua?

Corinth, just south of Denton. Maybe tomorrow... what is the postmark date on the ones that arrived today? it usually takes 2 days to get stuff to/from austin. If it didn't actually go out till saturday... that would make sense. ugh. STILL not done waiting.

mailman came and delivered some JCPenney ads and some other junk... no plastic today :(

my stupid mailman doesn't come till like 4pm! Your updates are making me nuts :)

bigmoney wrote:

djjoshuad wrote:confirming the shared folder, mine now says MAILED!

Now it's a race within the USPS, and then to Wally World for our initiations :)

edit: the USPS does not observe a holiday this weekend, but there will surely be an increase in volume of mail due to greeting cards. Perhaps I should have requested that the DPS put my license in a card :)

Congrats Finally. I was starting to feel bad.

Thanks!

35 days versus 60... I've only lived in one county for the past 8 years, and worked in another one. I did technically work for a California company for a year though (my office was at home)... maybe that's what held mine up? who knows. Crossing my fingers for a Monday delivery :)

confirming the shared folder, mine now says MAILED!

Now it's a race within the USPS, and then to Wally World for our initiations :)

edit: the USPS does not observe a holiday this weekend, but there will surely be an increase in volume of mail due to greeting cards. Perhaps I should have requested that the DPS put my license in a card :)

I'm pretty sure that the lollipop guild themselves show up to carry the plastic from my mailbox into my house, dancing it down the sidewalk to my waiting wallet. They stick around to help me fit my new holster and sing songs while I prepare for my Wally Walk. Then a herd of gun enthusiast supermodels follows me around the big-box store, fawning over my newfound confidence and badguy-fighting ability, pausing only to help me pick out some sweet new critical defense ammo. I can't find .357sig ANYWHERE but the pistol-packing model flock knows just where to get the good stuff. License Day draws to a close with the sounds of crickets, the soft snores of so many supermodels, and the gleeful hums of the lollipop dwarves as they dutifully clean my pistols. I get a great night's sleep, knowing that tomorrow is a new day - a LICENSED day.

Any truth to that? Man, I really hope my assumptions are correct :)

update - I called the DPS again today. I waited on hold (with music) for 16 minutes and 35 seconds. A female voice answered, and I asked for a detailed status of my application and gave her my TXDL#. She punched that into the computer, verified my name, and said that they were just waiting on one piece of my BG check. I assume that's the "tech review" that I posted about last week. She said she needed to put me on hold, and she would see if they could get that resolved "during this phone call". That conversation lasted about 45 seconds, at which point she put me on hold (in silence) for just shy of 18 minutes. I was starting to get tired of holding the phone when she finally came back and told me "you should expect your license in the mail within 7-14 business days." I asked if she meant that it has been sent to manufacture, and she said "yes, it's being printed. please wait 7-14 business days."

So, the good news is that my license is on its way!

The bad news is that it still might take almost 3 weeks! (14 business days from today is 5.06)

BTW, I called from work, where my phone has a timer on each call by default... so the wait times are accurate :)

Today marks 7 weeks since I sent my packet in. Wednesday will be 7 weeks since they received it. The DPS told me that there were no issues with my BG, my prints, etc... no issues anywhere. for some reason they still haven't marked the BG check as complete and sent it to printing. FWIW, they also told me that they received it on 3.02 and *started on it* 3.24. That's over three weeks that it just sat there waiting. I'm going to give them until 4.24 before I contact my state rep. I think one month since they started on it is plenty of time. I've tried to be patient, but this is getting ridiculous... if other people who sent theirs in at the same time already have plastic, and I have no BG or print issues... why should mine take so much longer? *sigh*

the yellow ! is just telling you that this part of the process is still incomplete. Nothing more, nothing less... we all have them :)

FWIW, I called the DPS today and got an updated status in a bit more detail than what is posted online. The nice guy on the other end of the line told me that the BG was completed without any issues, they're just waiting on a tech to give the entire application a once-over and ensure that all the paperwork is done correctly. This is apparently the last step in the process before it goes to printing. Unfortunately, this step isn't on the online status page. The gentleman told me that it would be updating online any day now, but to give them another call if it hadn't updated in a week.

So, moral of the story - even though it seems like the BG check is taking an inordinately long amount of time, it might be that the BG is actually done already and it's just waiting on that final paperwork approval, like mine currently is. Fear not, they're working on them as fast as they can :)