Applying a New Car Number

Went to JPJ in Padang Jawa to apply a new car number for my father. There were not many people at the counter. Beside the counter there is a notice board showing the latest numbers available from 1 to 7000. However, the list showing the numbers from 7001 to 9999 are kept in the counter.

If anyone wants to choose the number within 7001 to 9999, they must write it on a piece of paper and ask the officer in the counter to check. If the number is taken, then the person must write another number and ask the officer to check again. I was told that a person can only submit 3 numbers at a time and if all the numbers have been taken, he must queue up again for a new set of numbers.

I submitted a few numbers to the officer and was told that the numbers was already taken. Luckily there was not many people at the counter, so I submitted another set of numbers quickly to the officer. Unfortunately, the numbers were also taken. I asked the officer why don't she let me look at the list so that I can just choose a number from there. She refused and ask me to submit another set of numbers. I finally made her read a few available numbers from the list so that I could choose a number from there.

To register a chosen number we have to pay RM310. You pay the same amount of money if you choose the number from the list on the notice board or from the list in the counter. I wonder why they have to make us going round and round checking the numbers. Why can't they just show us the list for us to choose the number. It is a waste of precious time for us and for the officer too.

Sometimes we just can not understand the logic behind.