As LIBN recently reported, Dallas-based 7-Eleven has rolled out an aggressive expansion program for the Island with the goal of making it impossible to swing a cat anywhere in Nassau or Suffolk without hitting a hot plate.
Your 4 a.m. guilty pleasure palaces have now added a way to jump the line at the DMV, but you have to go to Taiwan for it. The Taipei Times reports that drivers can now renew their licenses at any one of 4,400 7-Elevens across the island nation.
What’s next? Marriage licenses at Subway? Hunting permits at Wings over Farmingdale? Oh, good heavens.
From the story:
“This one-stop service will help shorten the processing time and motorists will be able to get their new driver’s license within seven days, he said.
To renew drivers’ licenses at the convenience stores, motorists need to first attach a photocopy of their identification cards, their old driver’s licenses and a recent photograph on the application sheet.
The license renewal fee is NT$200 plus NT$25 for postage on a return envelope, NT$15 for processing fees and NT$15 for scanning fees.
The license renewal fee is NT$400 if the motorist needs to renew licenses for cars and scooters as well.
After payment, the application is scanned into the store’s “ibon” machine, which is connected to all the vehicle registration departments in the nation.
Once the service is activated on the ibon machine, the application will then be sent to the department’s database.”
Just demonstrates how backward the US has become…contratulations to Taiwan for their innovation…why didn’t we think of that?