True, but how many states can you transfer title in at 4:00 on a Saturday afternoon?
I would gladly pay for such a convenience. Not an option in any state I have lived in to-date. Dan Michael Canfield <slozuk...@gmail.com> wrote: >Those "private companies" in PA are most often members of the Commonwealth >and make regular trips to Harrisburg to do their business. They take your >paperwork with them and process it for you for a fee so you don't have to >go to Hburg to do it yourself. Takes 3 days to do in PA what you can do in >most states in minutes. > >Mike >On Apr 8, 2012 9:36 AM, "Tony Wirtel" <tony.wir...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> te: Sat, 7 Apr 2012 18:48:32 -0400 >> > From: Dan Penoff <lwb...@yahoo.com> >> > To: Mercedes Discussion List <mercedes@okiebenz.com> >> > Subject: Re: [MBZ] Very Aggravating >> > Message-ID: <067b5ef2-5876-4283-b612-16ddf251e...@yahoo.com> >> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii >> > >> > That doesn't make a lot of sense. >> > >> > I work a block away from the county central offices, and there is a DMV >> branch there that's totally dead, even at lunchtime. I asked them how I >> should deal with the purchase and they really didn't know. The catch-22 >> regarding temporary tags came up, and the person there admitted that they >> didn't know how you would go about it, as it's impossible under the current >> laws to get a temporary tag if the car is not physically in the state or >> your possession. Duh. >> > >> > I called PA and they were equally clueless. It wasn't until we were at >> the title place in PA that the offer of a temporary tag even came up. >> > >> > Dan >> >> >> >> Right... the Pennsylvania bureaucracy is a special kind of confusing. For >> certain types of title operations you go to private companies; for certain >> types of drivers license things you can go to private companies, online or >> the state (in local centers) and for some things you can only go to the >> state capital by mail. And it's quite common for the people who are >> actively involved to tell you have to go to somewhere else for something >> they're responsible for. >> I knew that temporary tags existed for transit however I thought they used >> to cost 15 or 20 bucks. It seems someone in the state had a brilliant >> eureka moment where they thought they could raise revenue and whack >> out-of-state people by raising the fee by five or six times. And if I was >> Dan I would've said the heck with it too. >> Given how dramatically the fee was raised I wonder how many others say the >> heck with it and if today they collect as much as they used to under the >> old structure. >> >> >> >> Tony Wirtel >> >> Former '92 300e/2.6 >> >> _______________________________________ >> http://www.okiebenz.com >> For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com >> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ >> >> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com >> >_______________________________________ >http://www.okiebenz.com >For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com >To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > >To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
