Auto renewal - convenience charge
Jun. 8th, 2008 12:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wwcitizenI got the registration slip in the mail this week, which isn't up till the end of August. Interestingly enough, there's a "convenience charge" with the NJ Motor Vehicle Commission for us to stay away from the MVC or send them back their registration card with a check. If we either call the toll-free number or visit their services online, there is a "convenience charge" of $2. Granted, the $2 is no big deal, and it is certainly a convenience not to have to go to the NJ MVC after all (who has the time for those lines?).
For me it's a misplaced appropriation or incorrect naming of the charge. I mean, why should the convenience charge befall us who are making the job of the people at the NJ MVC facility easier? If everyone went online or called the number to renew rather than send in the checks or visit the facility for their registration, the NJ taxpayers would be paying for people to stand around. We would be paying for people to do nothing, meanwhile still paying the convenience charge. I thought that the NJ MVC might have been privatized, but their website is a ".gov" website. No one can have those addresses unless they are specifically government, right?
At the end of the registration process, they give you a survey to fill out on how you found the website to register your car. In the spot where you can provide more feedback, I wrote the following:
"I don't understand the "convenience charge". Though small, it's actually a service we are doing the MVC by not coming to a facility; therefore, anyone who visits a facility should be charged this fee, not those who are reducing the taxpayers' overhead for the facility. The charge should be called an "inconvenience charge" for any facility visitors rather than those who use the online and phone conveniences. Something to think about."
For me it's a misplaced appropriation or incorrect naming of the charge. I mean, why should the convenience charge befall us who are making the job of the people at the NJ MVC facility easier? If everyone went online or called the number to renew rather than send in the checks or visit the facility for their registration, the NJ taxpayers would be paying for people to stand around. We would be paying for people to do nothing, meanwhile still paying the convenience charge. I thought that the NJ MVC might have been privatized, but their website is a ".gov" website. No one can have those addresses unless they are specifically government, right?
At the end of the registration process, they give you a survey to fill out on how you found the website to register your car. In the spot where you can provide more feedback, I wrote the following:
"I don't understand the "convenience charge". Though small, it's actually a service we are doing the MVC by not coming to a facility; therefore, anyone who visits a facility should be charged this fee, not those who are reducing the taxpayers' overhead for the facility. The charge should be called an "inconvenience charge" for any facility visitors rather than those who use the online and phone conveniences. Something to think about."
