[RocketsNW] LEUP

[Donald and Brenda Harris]

Chuck did my first inspection, nice guy. Glad to here your ok Dave. Purhaps 
we'll see you at a launch.

Don


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dave Proffitt" <bigrockets at verizon.net>
To: "OROC List" <rockets at rocketsnw.com>
Sent: Tuesday, December 09, 2008 1:20 PM
Subject: [RocketsNW] LEUP


> My LEUP expired before I could renew it this year due to catching some 
> upper
> respiratory bug from hell and keeping me down for two weeks. After I found
> out that I was still upright and alive I went down to the Sheriff's
> department and got finger printed, the Sandy Police had a one month 
> waiting
> list!  To make a long story short I went ahead and sent everything in 
> anyway
> with my fingers crossed.
>
> I got a call from the local BATF office and Chuck Spaulding was on the 
> other
> end wondering what had happened to me and my LEUP renewal. When I 
> explained
> to him what had happened and that I had sent everything in he was 
> apologetic
> and told me he didn't think they would renew it because I was reapplying 
> for
> a renewal after it had expired.
>
> I got a letter from the BATF about two weeks later telling me that my LEUP
> would indeed be here but was being delayed a bit. They told me to use this
> letter as a reference. I also noticed that the BATF had cashed my check 
> too.
> Today at my mail box was my new LEUP!
>
> Tony S. had to come up and reinspect it after I relocated it from Sherwood
> to my shop. He wrote some letters to some people for me concerning a
> variance and I sent a letter to this other guy telling him what was going 
> on
> , and everything finally came together.
>
> This is just my own opinion based on how the BATF has worked with me. I 
> have
> nothing but praise for both Tony and Chuck, they've always been most
> helpful, polite and easy to deal with. I wish all governmental agencies 
> were
> this easy and nice. The other day I was at the Sandy DMV.  Of course there
> were 8 people in numerical order in front of me and one guy at the counter
> who was on the phone enjoying a conversation with someone he didn't know,
> and not helping anyone of the 8 people in front of me. I guess everyone 
> else
> that works a window there was out to lunch, wondering around in the 
> parking
> lot or somewhere other than DMV.  I'd rather have root canal work done 
> with
> no Novocain than go to the DMV for anything. I usually renew all my 
> vehicles
> by mail. I tried to renew one of my vehicles on line and that didn't work
> due to some snafu with  DEQ boundary.  So cudo's to our local BATF office
> for doing their jobs in a superlative way, I at least appreciate the way
> they have worked with me.
>
> Dave Proffitt
>
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