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Old 07-11-2020, 05:55 PM
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Originally Posted by fdpaq0580 View Post
The DMV has been the butt of as many jokes as mothers in law. Most comedians have tons of material in their joke books.
We moved from Washington state 2013. Last couple of times my license was renewed by mail since I had no incidents on my record. Same with my wife. We didn't have to take time off work, get baby sitter or any other special arrangements so we could waste hours at the DMV. Vehicle registration required vehicle emissions checkout by certified shop.
In my opinion, most of those kinds of things (simple renewals) could easily be done by mail as long as record is clean and nothing has changed. Cost savings for the state by streamlining the system, time and effort saving for citizens. Your already in the system, just update the record. Win, win! New vehicle, New to Fla, with all the renewal traffic eliminated, the offices would be way less crowded and more efficient.
EXISTING license & registration RENEWALS and voter registration and party changes can all be done online or by mail here. It's when you need a NEW document the problem occurs and that's only because of COVID issues. Coming from Northern NJ, around here (as some famous politician always says) "IT'S THE MOST BEAUTIFUL DMV I HAVE VISITED." When we moved here the person transferring our NJ license to FL and voter registration to here did it all in under 15 minutes then spent more time helping my wife pick out a "pretty" license plate than it took for the whole change process. We found the office on 441 much bigger than here in Wildwood and ONLY was a DMV so there were less other lines or greeters to deal with. It also had hundreds of plates displayed on the wall to choose from (for an extra fee of course)!
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