Hurry Up and Wait...

Braden · Post by **Braden** » Tue Aug 29, 2006 9:54 am

Well, I completed my renewal class on Saturday, made copies when I came to work on Monday and now my wife is rushing to the Post Office to do the whole certified mail thing.

I guess that officially means I'm in the Waiting Room.

Gee...is there anything to do around here? I'm bored.

player_twister · Post by **player_twister** » Fri Sep 01, 2006 1:23 pm

Congradulations, Trust me, by the 3rd month, you will be on edge. Hang in there. Maybe you'll be one of the FEW that receives their CHL in 30-60 days. Mine took 109 days. Alot of scares. I would think, "now, what did i do when i was a KID"?....Or 10 yrs ago?,,,mind starts playing tricks on ya.

Hang in there

Braden · Post by **Braden** » Tue Sep 12, 2006 9:36 pm

It's been over two weeks and my status is still "Packet mailed to applicant". Is that normal? They received it just a few days after my original post.

Mithras61 · Post by **Mithras61** » Tue Sep 12, 2006 9:50 pm

I called three weeks after I mailed mine in & was told four to six weeks for them to enter the info into the web site, and also that there is no way for them to check the status other than the smae method WE use (somehow that last part doesn't seem quite right, but it IS what I was told).

FWIW, I mailed mine 14 August and it still says "Packet Mailed to Applicant."

longtooth · Post by **longtooth** » Wed Sep 13, 2006 3:20 am

Took 21 days for mine to move from "no application on file" to "Processing application." I never had an inbetween of 'App received." Figure out the buracracy.

Diode · Post by **Diode** » Wed Sep 13, 2006 6:27 am

Time moves so slowly when waiting. Hang in there it will hqappen eventually.

Braden · Post by **Braden** » Wed Sep 13, 2006 7:00 am

Fortunately time is on my side right now. My current license doesn't expire until the end of November.

I guess it's normal.

Diode · Post by **Diode** » Wed Sep 13, 2006 7:05 am

Braden wrote:Fortunately time is on my side right now. My current license doesn't expire until the end of November.

I guess it's normal.

One would think they will get it done by then

longtooth · Post by **longtooth** » Wed Sep 13, 2006 8:14 am

Boy I hope so. I have til January. My opinion of the beuracratic beurocrats makes me nervous about that time frame.

Braden · Post by **Braden** » Wed Sep 13, 2006 4:48 pm

Diode, I'm trying to be optimistic. ;)

Diode · Post by **Diode** » Wed Sep 13, 2006 4:52 pm

Braden wrote:Diode, I'm trying to be optimistic. ;)

Ah! I see, hmmm Well..... Uh!

Skipper5 · Post by **Skipper5** » Wed Sep 13, 2006 10:36 pm

Braden wrote:Fortunately time is on my side right now. My current license doesn't expire until the end of November.

I guess it's normal.

Just give em some of that good ole TX charm...good luck...bt Nov should work..lol

Braden · Post by **Braden** » Wed Sep 20, 2006 8:17 am

Day 22 - "Packet Mailed to Applicant"

65 days left until my current license expires. Anyone care to take a guess at what day the new license will actually show up??

In the meantime, I've enjoyed a couple of Saturdays of early morning bird hunting followed by shooting handguns and a friend's AK-47 into a dried up tank dam. Fun stuff!!

longtooth · Post by **longtooth** » Wed Sep 20, 2006 9:00 am

Braden wrote:Day 22 - "Packet Mailed to Applicant"

In the meantime, I've enjoyed a couple of Saturdays of early morning bird hunting followed by shooting handguns and a friend's AK-47 into a dried up tank dam. Fun stuff!!

About my same time frame for my renewal. It appears that they are doing a little better than several months ago. We will see.

65 days left until my current license expires. Anyone care to take a guess at what day the new license will actually show up??

Cutting it a little close. Hope it is enough time. All 1st time renewals, this is why I recomend that you START EARLY. 6 months is not very long when you loose the 1st month completely because it takes that long for them to send your packet. They seem to use the whole 60 days alloted to them & that is half of your time gone, BEST CASE. If there is any scheduling problem for class, you have an immergency & miss a class, get sick, have to redo finger prints or miss signing something, (or heaven forbid have to schedule surgery during the 6 months

) it is very easy to have a gap.

??Tank dam??? You a West Texan for sure. When I differentiate between tank & pond someone here always asks, what is a tank. I tell them it is a West Texas pond. I know where the Texas Oklahoma boarder is. I know about where East Texas becomes Central & then changes to West Texas. Just never quit figured out where ponds become tanks.

Hope you have plastic prior to expiration.
Sure like your signature.
LT

Braden · Post by **Braden** » Thu Sep 21, 2006 7:27 am

longtooth wrote: About my same time frame for my renewal. It appears that they are doing a little better than several months ago. We will see.

Cutting it a little close. Hope it is enough time. All 1st time renewals, this is why I recomend that you START EARLY. 6 months is not very long when you loose the 1st month completely because it takes that long for them to send your packet. They seem to use the whole 60 days alloted to them & that is half of your time gone, BEST CASE. If there is any scheduling problem for class, you have an immergency & miss a class, get sick, have to redo finger prints or miss signing something, (or heaven forbid have to schedule surgery during the 6 months ) it is very easy to have a gap.

I should clarify that I've already taken the class and sent my packet in. That was Day 1. I'm at Day 23 now and the status on the website still says "Packet Mailed to Applicant".

I'm not quite sure why they say a renewal takes 45 days when everyone knows there's no way they'll get it done in 45 days.

If it gets here ON my birthday it will have taken 87 days since the day I mailed it off and 86 days since the day they received it.

??Tank dam??? You a West Texan for sure. When I differentiate between tank & pond someone here always asks, what is a tank. I tell them it is a West Texas pond. I know where the Texas Oklahoma boarder is. I know about where East Texas becomes Central & then changes to West Texas. Just never quit figured out where ponds become tanks.

I lived in Lubbock for about a year and a half as a child, but I'm not from there. I'm from a small town on I-45 about 20-25 miles south of Dallas. We had a pond (usually dry because it was too shallow) in the middle of our horse pasture and my granddad always called it a "tank"...so I guess that's where I learned it from.

Sure like your signature.
LT

Thanks.