[towergratis]

A funny experience with DMV:

I sent my payment via regular mail. 1 month later still don't have my registration renewal, so I start worrying. I call my bank to block the check, and go to DMV offices in person and make a payment using a credit card.

After a couple of weeks I receive 2 letters from DMV the same day. One saying I double paid, and hence they are now include a check with my payment back. And another one saying my original check has bounced and that now I will have to make the payment using cashier's check and pay an extra $20 for the bounced check.

I get a cashier check for the amount plus the $20 and make yet another payment.

A couple of weeks later I receive another letter from DMV with a check returning the $20 penalty.

So overall in the end we did balance things out, but took a while :D

[AlotOfReading]

If you had missed that renewal payment deadline for the DMV, you get an automatic fee+60% fine on top and the only way to pay is via cashier's check, which you can find out by calling the most punitive phone tree/hold system I've ever experienced. I think it took something like 5 hours to actually reach a person, by which point it was after hours and they had gone home so the system hung up.

I had simply made a transcription error on the account number and the letter took 1.5mos to get back. That was a few days after the deadline.