Lookie what came in the mail yesterday!

[Cataboo]

My WABA membership is good through 2011 so that was already a sunk cost for me. I like what WABA does, so I'm happy to pay the membership fee.

Oh, I'll probably get around to joining eventually for other reasons... My knickers just got in a bunch at being required to join. In order to get the special chesapeake bay license plate or any of those, you don't have to join & pay membership to any chesapeake bay group. So I don't see why this should be that way - if anything, you're putting an obstacle up when the reality is that the more of these license plates on the road the better.

[divingbiker]

Oh, I'll probably get around to joining eventually for other reasons... My knickers just got in a bunch at being required to join. In order to get the special chesapeake bay license plate or any of those, you don't have to join & pay membership to any chesapeake bay group. So I don't see why this should be that way - if anything, you're putting an obstacle up when the reality is that the more of these license plates on the road the better.

In most cases, the groups sponsoring the special license plates tack on an extra fee so they get their money that way; WABA didn't charge extra for the plate. One way or another, you pay for the privilege of being part of the group.

The state of Maryland sponsors the Chesapeake Bay plates, so I'd reckon that's why there's no group to join. All the other plates require that you go through the sponsoring group (Zen posted the link this morning.)

[Cataboo]

I'm used to virginia. There's like 200 special plates. Most of them are an additional $10 a year in the registration fee. Some are $25 a year and the organization or university that it's for gets $15 of that after the first 1,000 plates are sold.

You just get on the DMV website or go to the DMV and get the plate through there - most of them don't require membership proof or anything like that, but the purple heart or police group or whatever ones do.

[Zen]

WABA wasn't listed on MD's DMV site. Wonder if you could get away with it in person?

[Cataboo]

WABA wasn't listed on MD's DMV site. Wonder if you could get away with it in person?

If you get away with it, let me know