check your N.J. driver license!

Wow, that sucks. Here in Connecticut, we always get a notice in the mail. And we don't have to go through the hassle of standing in endless lines at the DMV just to renew a drivers’ license. I just go down to my nearest AAA office (American Automobile Association) and get it renewed there. Usually takes all of 5-10 minutes, and I pick up nice vacation and cruise brochures there as well. Of course, I'm a member of AAA... I'm not sure if non-members can renew their licenses at AAA offices...

>I live in a small town where if you are within a certain mile radius of the Post Office, you have to have a PO Box they do not deliver your mail.

Same here (Sussex Co.) .... I always have to explain, when I don't put a street address, "That's my mailing address -- I live in a semi-rural area, where not every house gets home mail delivery."

>a street address ID for verification on your PO Boxes

Now you know I'm a New Jerseyan, because I anticipated just this scenario! so I brought my property tax statement, which shows both my mailing address AND my street address...

BTW, if you go the NJ DMV website (http://www.state.nj.us/mvc/Licenses/DocumentSelector/index.htm), it actually has a handy feature, where you go through each of the "point" documents, and it tells you what you can bring and what won't work... plus it keeps score of the points on the side of the web page. My advice: bring double of everything. If it says you need "one of these documents," bring two (DL and passport vs. just DL, for example); if it says you need two documents, bring four; and so on. That's what saved me this morning.

BTW #2: your NJ firearms purchaser ID counts as one of the secondary identifiers!

Don’t feel so bad. We mistakenly renewed the registration for the wrong vehicle last summer. A yellow light up the street is too quick, and I was pulled over for going through a stoplight. First time ever. That’s how I found out about the registration. :-0

To make matters worse, I couldn’t find the insurance card. Cop told me not to worry, just bring it to the courthouse. It turns out, the insurance card was in the glove compartment the whole time. Of course, it was valid. I brought it to the courthouse, but I still had to pay an extra fee to have that ticket dropped, even though the insurance was valid and I explained the card was in my car. The cop didn’t want to wait and behaved as if that ticket would be erased if I just showed the card at the courthouse.

The registration was our mistake. The quick yellow light is a trap, but, OK, they got me there. But the insurance card... I mean, come on.

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