I am a charter member of the Charlottesville Procrastinator’s Club. We meet next Thursday, but possibly Friday. We’ll see.
Anyway, I am an expert at putting things off till the last minute which drives my wife, Nancy, nuts.
Last December, and don’t tell my fellow Procrastinators this, I got my registration renewal from DMV and rather than filing it away in my Get Around Tuit box, I did the unthinkable. I went online, gave them my charge card, and renewed on the spot.
However.
Just last week I noticed that my tags said 2023. They never sent me the new ones. They were lost – or stolen – in the mail. It’s hard to lose an official Virginia Government letter. Doesn’t happen. But theft does. Someone with access to the Post Office, likely in Richmond where all the mail goes, has been pilfering remitted checks, altering the name of the payee, and cashing in. Why not steal DMV decals and sell to the black market for those who can’t get tags or to those who want to save a few bucks? Put the decals on and if you don’t get pulled over, you’re good to go.
I was expecting the worst from DMV, but I was pleasantly surprised. Within 5 minutes after I took a number, they called it and I was greeted by a very pleasant and efficient lady. She looked at my records, saw that I had paid back in December and gave me a new registration card and new decals – for which she charged me $3.
It was a small price to pay for betraying my fellow procrastinators.
