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Craig8d8 wrote:she said "well I want a dark pink gun with crystals on it then Texas will let me carry too". Oh the joys of being a worry free tot!!

Just wait until she figures out she needs a matching holster as well!

TheMilkMan wrote:

Rocstar wrote:

TheMilkMan wrote:I got my plastic today! From how people described the envelope from DPS I expected it to be a nondescript envelope barely held together by a piece of tape. I am on cloud 9. If it wasn't the day before Thanksgiving tomorrow I would consider doing my Wally Walk. Thanks everyone for the support. To all still waiting, your time will come too. 47 days from submission of paperwork to plastic in hand.

Be brave... Do your Wally Walk on Friday!

I thought the purpose was to avoid life threatening situations?

For me, it would be a good chance to practice deescalating a potentially bad situation as I would most likely want to shoot some of the crazed shoppers.

TheMilkMan wrote:I got my plastic today! From how people described the envelope from DPS I expected it to be a nondescript envelope barely held together by a piece of tape. I am on cloud 9. If it wasn't the day before Thanksgiving tomorrow I would consider doing my Wally Walk. Thanks everyone for the support. To all still waiting, your time will come too. 47 days from submission of paperwork to plastic in hand.

Be brave... Do your Wally Walk on Friday!

vietvin wrote:Congrats! Since we were along the same timeline, I'm hoping that I'll get mine today also...

I am holding out hope for you!

Rocstar wrote:

Rocstar wrote:

Rocstar wrote:

Rocstar wrote:Here is my current timeline:

October 8, 2011 - Took CHL class.
October 10, 2011 - Applied online, scheduled fingerprinting.
October 17, 2011 - Completed fingerprinting at 10:20 am.
October 17, 2011 - Mailed packet, with Delivery Confirmation, at 12:26 pm.

And the waiting begins...

October 19, 2011 - Packet successfully delivered (Delivery Confirmation via USPS.com)

First update on the TX DPS site today. I had checked around 5:30 am and it showed to still be awaiting my materials. On a whim, just checked again (~ 8:30 am) and got my first update. So now, I am awaiting my background check to be completed. YIPPEEE!

October 27, 2011 - Application 'Received' by DPS

Another update this morning. Happened sometime between 5:00 - 6:45 am. I am getting closer!

November 4, 2011 - Background Check Completed
November 4, 2011 - Manufacturing Pending

The update I have been waiting for...

November 8, 2011 - Mailed

SUCCESS!!!

Just received the mail for the day and had a nice piece of plastic from the state in there for me.

So hang in there guys, there is still hope.

Craig8d8 wrote:And yet another day comes and goes without a present in my mailbox. When I mailed everything off it took one day to get there per the USPS. So when it says "mailed" I highly doubt that to be true.

Mailed 11/10?? Hahaha

I with you on this. If it WAS mailed on 11/10, even with a holiday and a Sunday to consider, there is no reason for it to have not gotten from Austin to the Bryan/College Station area by today.

Surely, the postal service can't be that inefficient????

strider67 wrote: Supposedly they go out in big batches, I'm assuming on Fridays, from other timelines... It took mine 5 days to get to me after it showed mailed. I won't guess anymore, just good luck!

That would actually make sense to me as far as what they do to try to manipulate the dates on their end to their advantage. On the front end, they don't show a package as 'received' until they get it scanned into their system or whatever they do with it. Then on the back end, they show it as mailed although it won't go out for days because they do so in batches.

Probably shaves about 10 days or so off the time they show or report as the time it takes to complete the process and makes them look good (or at least better) when they report their numbers.

strider67 wrote:I feel terrible! It's all my fault!

Too nice, but I know it wasn't your fault.

It is irritating to me that it showed mailed on 11/8, and I would even give them the benefit of the doubt that it didn't actually go to the post office until 11/9, but I still can't believe that, even with a holiday thrown in there, that I didn't receive it on Saturday, 11/12, much less yesterday, 11/14.

Heck, even if it got to the post office on the 10th, I would have still expected it to be here yesterday. Even with the holiday and a Sunday in there.

But I guess I shouldn't expect anything less (or rather more) from the postal service.

jchamb wrote:progress!
Background completed and manufacturing pending!
Getting closer....

Congrats!

I would bet yours will be mailed by the end of the week.

Craig8d8 wrote:No luck for me in the mailbox today.

No luck here either.

Okay...

Thinking today might actually be the day that I get my plastic.

But I guess we will just have to wait and see...

strider67 wrote:They were probably planning for their Friday on Thursday, and recovering from their Friday on Saturday!

Now that is something that I could see them doing!

Pawpaw wrote:

Rocstar wrote:

Rocstar wrote:Hoping today is the day I get a little letter from the state in the mail.

Well, the Pony Express didn't have anything in the mail for me yesterday. Strike that... If it had been the Pony Express, I would have recieved my plastic yesterday. I just didn't get it via US Mail.

I wouldn't want to disparage the Pony Express! :-)

Maybe today will be the day...

Did you know yesterday was a Federal holiday? I'm betting you didn't get ANY mail.

Wasn't able to convey my sarcasm anywhere near correctly.

Obviously, didn't get any mail on Friday. But didn't get anything on Thursday or Saturday either. Highly unusual. Not even a piece of junk mail. So I have my doubts that they even worked those days.

Rocstar wrote:Hoping today is the day I get a little letter from the state in the mail.

Well, the Pony Express didn't have anything in the mail for me yesterday. Strike that... If it had been the Pony Express, I would have recieved my plastic yesterday. I just didn't get it via US Mail.

I wouldn't want to disparage the Pony Express! :-)

Maybe today will be the day...

Hoping today is the day I get a little letter from the state in the mail.