I finally got through to my local FSDO, who gave me a number at aircraft registration that is actually answered. So now I have to revise and resend the letter I sent previously since they had no record of it. They did get the $5 I sent in with it though. 
Boy, if we had a nickel for every time we have to resubmit something because our POI "can't find it anymore". He's not even discrete about it, kinda goes "I lost it again, somewhere on my desk, can you resubmit?!"
True story. But if we don't respond to something within 2 days everybody gets upset. Our training manual update is pending for 2 months now and our "Will Carry" Hazmat license has been pushed around for over 2 years. No wonder the govenment is broke. It's all those people Ron Paul calls "Non-Producers".....
I was talking to one of my local helitack supervisors on one of the local districts (which shall remain unnamed for the purpose of this post) and we could come up with 5 names within a mintue that would not make any difference if their jobs were cut tomorrow. And that's just one little program in one little district of the government. Now imagine the Pentagon or FAA or TSA . . . . the list goes on.....
No private business would be able to operate like that (for long).....
