txff240 wrote:mondo2000 wrote:jmorris wrote:I think at 90-120 days to complete, does one day matter? I mailed my from San Antonio, delivery receipt requested, and it only took a day to get there. It may not have been picked up that exact day but at most the next.
Who am I kidding? If I could shave an hour off......
Do not send your application to the DPS using any service in which they have to sign for it. When you send it registered or certified mail your application will sit in a box at the post office to wait for a worker at DPS to come in and sign for it. They may do it every day or they may take a week.
If you want to know the day in which DPS receives your application then send the application using "delivery confirmation." It costs about $0.65 cents extra if you send it first class.
Sent mine certified mail with return receipt, they received it 2 days after I sent it. I was told by the instructor to send it certified.
Sending it certified is playing with fate. If a DPS employee gets lazy or forgets to go to the post office to go and sign for the certified mail then your application will just sit there. You got lucky that it arrived 2 days later. Sending it with "Delivery confirmation" is sufficient in tracking the mailman.