Some Government Agencies Are Still Following Strict COVID Precautions
In Minnesota, if you need to change the address on your Driver's License, you have to show up in person at a Driver's License service center. Most are operated by some local government agency. Where I live, I had to make an appointment at the Hennepin County Service Center in the city where I now live.
Never mind that filling out the change of address form was done online, and an appointment was made for over a month later. I still had to show up today to show my face and present my credentials. Oh, well.
To get inside the building, you had to be wearing a mask. There was a mask-checker just inside the door. Once inside and waiting for your number to be called in the actual office, you got to sit in nice comfy chairs, set up in groups of three seats. Only one of the three was available in each group. The other two were marked to prohibit seating. There were no Karens whining about masking in the office today, thank goodness.
Once your number is called, you can go up to the window, where a very nice person does what is needful to change your address, based on the online form you had already filled out.
While I'm glad to see those precautions in place, I do wonder about the need for such an in-person process just to change the address on your license. Now, I just have a regular driver's license, so it only took a minute or two for the clerk to do the job and that was that. My wife, however, has a RealID driver's license, so she had to produce more documents before her address could be changed, just as she did when she changed to the RealID license. It took her 10 minutes at the window. Fortunately, I looked at the list of required documents and added one more to her pile before we went. It was needed, too. On the other hand, I still have to take my passport with me when I fly or visit a federal building. Never mind. I have one of those.
Bureaucracy. We has it.