At the Kansas DMV, the waiting continues

[KansDem]

Step into the Wyandotte County Courthouse and ask which way to the treasurer’s office. A security guard will suggest the direction, “if you’re brave enough.”

Paul Walsh stood among the daring. He showed up 8 a.m. Monday and was still in a line that stretched well into the courthouse hallway at 10:30 a.m. He was late for work on a roofing job.

“The last time I was here, it took like 10 minutes,” he said. “This … is just crazy.”

And this ditty:

Chris Hayes, a catering manager from Overland Park, had tried to pay for his paperwork on Friday. Bad choice. The last day of the month crams motor vehicle offices with procrastinators. The volume is twice or triple in the last week of a month.

Hayes had to try again Monday. He got a place in line through the county treasurer’s website at 7:30 a.m. and was on pace to be served shortly before noon.

That's right...over four hours

At the Kansas DMV, the waiting continues

But Gov. Brownback can take the time to oversee a effort, spearheaded by SoS Kobach, to remove Pres. Obama from the Kansas ballot in November because they don't think he's an American citizen...

[Arkansas Granny]

1. To err is human. To really fuck up, you need a computer.

[dems_rightnow]

2. Kansas finally wised up

They allowed you to buy your tags online via Webtags.

But the people they hired to take the payments charged OUTRAGEOUS fees, and nobody would use it. They now don't charge any fee, and once people figure it out, those lines will disappear.

https://www.kswebtags.org/welcome.aspx

Edit to fix link.....

Edit- OK, they aren't going to allow a link. Odd.

[proud2BlibKansan]

4. But you have to go in person to get new tags.

You can only renew online. No new tags.

[dems_rightnow]

6. True

But the lines are going to shorten dramatically. People WILL renew online. I know I will.

[proud2BlibKansan]

8. I don't know. I talked to the clerks both times I was there.

Two years ago, when it took me three trips to get my new tags, I noticed they had 36 stations but only 6 were open. I asked the clerk and she said they didn't even have 36 employees if they WANTED to open all those stations. Then this summer when I went back for new tags on another car, they had remodeled and only had about 15 stations. Again I talked to the clerk and she said the vast majority of their business was for new tags, and most people WERE renewing online.

Definitely do it online. I did ours on a Thursday evening and our stickers were in Saturday's mail.

But no, I don't think that will reduce the wait.

[KansDem]

5. That's how I renewed my tags this year.

Went online and paid on a Friday and the tags were in my mailbox on Tuesday. I was surprised! I thought it might take a week to 10 days.

I think I'll be doing my car-tag renewal online from now on!

[proud2BlibKansan]

3. It's really a nightmare. It took me three trips to get tags for my new car.

And that was 2 years ago, before they had even installed this new system.

I had to get tags for another car this summer and saved a place on line. The wait was only 4 hours

Did our renewals via mail. It took less than 36 hours.

But you know what? The MO system is WORSE. It's privatized and contracts to run the DMV offices are awarded as political favors. When we lived in MO, we titled a car and never received the title. Turned out the family that ran the DMV office where we went for our title had been ripping off the money they were collecting.

[KansDem]

7. Ahhh, "privatization!"

Turned out the family that ran the DMV office where we went for our title had been ripping off the money they were collecting.

It used to be stories like this one infuriated me. Now it seems to occur with such regularity that it's accepted as "business as usual."

Perhaps the family went on to more lucrative endeavors? Like, Iraq war contracts?

[proud2BlibKansan]

9. LOL probably so.