After several trips to the license bureau over a few months, I finally have my license plates. Both of them. And they match. And the stickers on them also match. I put the plates on the car as soon as I got home. No more driving on one plate and a piece of paper in the rear window.

As jmaynard had to stop in at the License Bureau today I went along to ask about my license plates once again. Jay's issue was readily taken care of, or at least started off. Then I asked about my plates again. I got to explain what happened yet again as the Wednesday crew and the Tuesday crew seem to have zero overlap.

That might have been for the ( Read more... )

Back in October I had some trouble with a license plate mix-up. I went to the license bureau then to see about straightening things out. The result of that was that I've now been driving on a single plate and a temporary paper placed in the rear window. Such a paper is valid for sixty days.

That was about sixty days ago. Last week I called ( Read more... )

This noon I stopped in at the local license bureau office to see about getting the license plate situation sorted out. When I showed the plates, the initial reaction was sort of disbelief, wondering how such a thing could happen. This was quickly followed by a concerned bewilderment of what to do. I explained that the while the stickers matched ( Read more... )

I've had my car long enough now the state of Minnesota is issuing new license plates for it. This should be no big deal, other than I have a state-issued piece of paper taped in the rear window showing that I did pay the registration renewal fee and that I am awaiting the new plates while still driving with the old ones. Today the new plates ( Read more... )