Boo Hoo! You brought it all upon yourself by not paying the ticket when due. Now you whine about the additional costs because you chose not to pay the ticket on time.
I can see nothing wrong on the side of the police.
Send it certified next time. They have to sign for it when it is received in the mail room. If it takes them 30 days to post it...it ain’t your fault and you have proof of receipt.
I learned long ago when dealing with any agencies via mail...reply certified.
I noticed on a trip last week that I went through a city with multiple traffic cameras and wondered at that time what were they measuring, traffic light violations or that plus speed? If I violated any parameter, would I be willing to contest it in a city hundreds of miles away? Are we now becoming the locality-determined potential victims of revenue-need. Thus we move from 'speed traps' to anything?
Just a suggesion (won’t help with this one but might if it happens again). Call your state delegate’s office and tell them your tale. They may be abe to direct you to the right place to correctly voice your protest. At least they will be able to see what is happening out here.
Off on another incident, I purchased some items recently from one store, that sells from 2 of it’s stores under different names.
They cleared the checking account one day, all on one stores name, no problem there.
The next day the same charges, for the same amounts were ‘pending’ my checking account under the second store’s name.
And the balance of those charges taken out of my account, even though they were ‘pending’ charges.
I called the bank. Explained what was happening. First thing out of the CSR’s mouth was, well it was the same girl that coded both.
Then she explained that if they ‘posted’ to my account, and it was an error, I would have to file a ‘claim’ so to speak, an appeal. But that they MAY not ‘post’ to my account.
So I asked how can they not ‘post’ and yet you have taken the amount out of my account-TWICE already? And if they didn’t ‘post’, would they restore the balance amount. She said yes they would.
So, I was ready for the fight to begin.
The amount we are talking about is over a $100 and less than $500...
The next day, checked the account again.
Balance was restored, ‘pending’ charges (2nd time around for the same charges) were GONE.
I believe had I not caught this, before the deed was done, it would have went through the account twice ‘appearing’ as 2 different stores even though it was one technically. And I would have had to prove (appeal) the bank’s charges against my account.
I do not know and probably won’t know if the ‘girl who coded them both’ was fired..
Keep your eyes open...
What you’re observing is local government morphing into the local “mob”....Louis with the baseball bat has become Chiquita behind the computer screen at the DMV.
This is nothing new. It may get to be more pervasive but governments have been doing this for ages. In 1995 I went to renew my driver’s license in New Hampshire when they told me that I couldn’t because my license was suspended in the state of Virginia. The last time I was in Virginia was December of 1984 when I left the Navy. NH said too bad, we have a reciprocity agreement so you have to straighten this out with the state of Virginia.
So I called the Virginia Dept. of Motor Vehicles. They looked up my name and said I owed them $100. I asked them what for and they said they had no record of that, only that I owed them $100. So they couldn’t tell me why they just wanted the money or else. Since it would have cost me more money to fight it I sent them $100.
So, fine paid I go back to renew my driver’s license. I was told I couldn’t because my license was suspended in the state of Virginia. I explained that I paid up and, naturally, they didn’t care. So I called the Virginia Dept. of Motor Vehicles again and they said I owed them $100. I told them I had paid the $100 already. They said that true, I had paid them $100 but now I had to pay them another $100 TO GET MY VIRGINIA DRIVER’S LICENSE REINSTATED. I told them that I hadn’t set foot in Virginia since 1984 and if I never set foot in it again I’d be a happy man. They didn’t care, just send $100 or else.
So I paid $100 for a ticket I never got and they never told me what it was for then paid another $100 for a license I would never use, just because they could do it. Extortion by government is as old as government itself.
Did youy receive a paper ticket last year? If so did you have a chance to confront your accuser?
If you didn’t receive a paper ticket than how do they prove you were actually there? I’m sure you may have loaned your car to any one of thousands of friends you have.
If it’s not written down, it never happened.
Most all the cities in Texas are taking the red light cameras down or disabling them. BUT, not Austin and Round Rock. They are both installing them and will be turned on in mid summer. Those are nothing but revenue streams for the cities.
There is one on highway 79 in Hutto and I often go through that intersection. I’ve seen several rear end collisions there. If I see the light turn yellow, I will stop, especially it there is a FARM TRUCK license plates on the vehicle in front of me.
A couple of weeks ago we were on a toll road to save a bunch of time. There was a pickup from Kansas going down the road, and I know he did not have a TX Tag on his vehicle. It can be paid via mail with an additional 10%, but I don’t know if Texas will send a bill to another state.