TxDPS & Murphy’s Law teamed up to help me out on my LTC renewal.
Got a Renewal letter dated Aug. 6th - so got online that evening and renewed. Today (the 20th) got a ‘form letter’ from DPS saying my Handgun Proficiency Class form was out of date and that I’d have to submit a current one.
That’s funny.... didn’t think you had to take a “refresher” course in order to renew. So I gave DPS a call, and the lady looked up my record (had to give her my D/L number - not my LTC number - which I thought was interesting).
Anyway, she spotted whatever the problem was and sent a message over to a different department, telling them no certificate of training was needed for my renewal application. Hopefully this fixed whatever the problem was.
While I had her on the phone, she apparently took care of my Zip Code number change also. I explained the Post Office had assigned a new number to us and the online renewal application form didn’t recognize or acknowledge that it was a valid Zip Code for Texas. So she was somehow able to make that change also.
She told me to expect a “three to five day delay” due to the training cert mixup. Apparently there’s a way to track the renewal progress online (which I wasn’t aware of).
Got a Renewal letter dated Aug. 6th - so got online that evening and renewed. Today (the 20th) got a ‘form letter’ from DPS saying my Handgun Proficiency Class form was out of date and that I’d have to submit a current one.
That’s funny.... didn’t think you had to take a “refresher” course in order to renew. So I gave DPS a call, and the lady looked up my record (had to give her my D/L number - not my LTC number - which I thought was interesting).
Anyway, she spotted whatever the problem was and sent a message over to a different department, telling them no certificate of training was needed for my renewal application. Hopefully this fixed whatever the problem was.
While I had her on the phone, she apparently took care of my Zip Code number change also. I explained the Post Office had assigned a new number to us and the online renewal application form didn’t recognize or acknowledge that it was a valid Zip Code for Texas. So she was somehow able to make that change also.
She told me to expect a “three to five day delay” due to the training cert mixup. Apparently there’s a way to track the renewal progress online (which I wasn’t aware of).