Re: CHAT: postcodes

Christophe Grandsire scripsit:

> and the CD
> letters, which mark cars of the Corps Diplomatique - basically cars from
> embassies and the like).
Oho.  I never did understand why diplomatic license plates in New York
City have "CD" embedded in them, until today.  Of course, how obvious!

> in France the plate is for the
> car, not for the driver as in Belgium).
In New York State, at least (all 50 states have slightly different laws
about these things), the rule is that when a car is sold, new plates are
issued, no matter how many previous sales there have been.  Therefore,
the plates represent a pair of (owner, car).

Then there is the matter of front vs. rear plates.  All states require
rear plates, many but not all require front plates.  Florida in particular
requires only rear plates, and is hypervigilant about insisting on them
(after only 30 days of residence in Florida, you must pay for and display
a Florida plate; or if you have a child in a Florida school, there is
no grace period at all).  Since many people have dual residence in
Florida and New York, cars with Florida rear plates and New York
front plates are not rare.

> Funny enough, when they run out of plates, they rearrange
> the three groups, giving them another order. So you see cars with plates going
> LL-DD-LL, but also cars with LL-LL-DD plates and cars with DD-LL-LL
> plates :))) .
New York is on its fourth or fifth lexical structure of this kind,
and New Jersey has had at least three.

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