[GreenKeys] Slashed zero on Teletypes

[David Christ]

Several years ago when I transferred my call letter plates from one car to another, the DMV clerk typed in Q rather than zero.  Result: I was driving a Mercury Sable with plates registered to a VW Golf.

A couple of years ago Iowa got smart and now uses slashed zeros on all plates.  Good move because O and zero were easy to confuse with the font they were using.

David K0LUM


On May 19, 2015, at 6:33 PM, Jeffrey D Angus <jdangus at att.net> wrote:

> And then there's just plain bureaucratic BS.
> Several years ago, a police dispatcher was fired because she insisted on
> putting a horizontal slash through the number 7.
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