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Prize-Hedgehog t1_j97tsdm wrote

The new plates are more reflective. Some people kept their old blue plates, I’m not sure how because at the time you were supposed to mail the old ones back once you got the new ones. But, as long as the registration is valid don’t think anyone cares now.

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NLCmanure t1_j97vi33 wrote

>The new plates are more reflective.

which seems to roughly coincide with the cops switching from using radar to laser for speed enforcement and the requirement of 2 plates instead of 1. Whether that's all related, I don't know.

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AhbabaOooMaoMao t1_j9c8382 wrote

I don't recall them replacing plates. New registrations got new plates. Old registrations kept old plates. That's why there's still some around on older vehicles.

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Prize-Hedgehog t1_j9cev6j wrote

When your registration was up around 2001 you’d get a “replacement plate” sticker to put on the upper right of the plate. Then when you paid the registration renewal the new plates came, it had the new expiration sticker and plates in an envelope. Then you mailed the old ones back in the envelope the new ones came in. But, at the time many vehicles didn’t have 2 plates, maybe some had theirs in a garage and never sent both back. I know the car I had the front plate got mangled in a fender bender so I only sent one back.

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