June 14, 2019
By: Dwayne Page
County Clerk’s Offices across the state will be authorized to charge a little more for the service of handling mail orders of license plates beginning July 1st.
The fee will increase by one dollar per transaction going from $3.00 to $4.00 to help cover higher costs of postage in mailing plates to customers but it will mostly affect car dealers.
“ The county clerks are appreciative of this new law. Currently our postage fee is $3 when mailing plates to customers. This fee has not had an increase in several years and for several months the $3 fee has not covered the cost associated with mailing plates. Through our County Clerk’s efforts joining together and our State lawmakers agreeing an increase was needed the state is increasing an additional $1 to help with cost of increasing mail fees,” said County Clerk James L. (Jimmy) Poss.
The increase will apply only to mail orders and not over the counter transactions in the clerk’s office.