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Re "DMV eliminates Saturday hours," Aug. 8 There are some things one cannot do online. By eliminating Saturday hours, the state makes members of the public take time off from work during the week to fight the good fight at the DMV. Firing government workers might save a small percentage of the yearly budget, but at what price? The fired workers and those who have to take time off from work to go to the DMV lose out on much-needed income. On the other hand, at least fired workers have the time to spend their days waiting in line at the DMV. Jerry Berger Los Angeles

When investigators from the state Department of Motor Vehicles arrested a "gray market" automobile dealer from Van Nuys last week, they scraped the surface of a little-known but persistent problem: the importing of foreign cars that were never meant to be sold in the United States. The dealer, Mark Frederick Segal, owner of Euro International Inc., was arrested on suspicion of violating state laws governing the sale of vehicles.

Re "DMV report adds to license debate," Jan. 16 Findings by the DMV make the case that allowing undocumented immigrants to get driver's licenses will be good for everyone. Really, did this need to be researched? Doesn't common sense say public safety would benefit by testing and licensing undocumented immigrants before they drive? Salvador Sanchez Silver Lake ALSO: Letters: 'Cops count,' especially in L.A. Letters: Gov. Brown's vision for UC and CSU Mailbag: Pigs, apes and humans -- we're not so different

I was startled to read how much trouble Winston Cazzell went through after he received a juror notice for his deceased wife (letter, July 31). I write "Deceased--Return to Sender" on all such mail for people no longer alive, and after the carrier takes it away I never see it again. RON HARDCASTLE Los Angeles My mother recently received a juror notice to serve. She was born in 1897 and died in 1990. I thought potential jurors were selected from voter records and DMV files.

The Irvine Mitsubishi car dealership has been fined $45,000 and placed on two years' probation for charging car buyers $89 for an anti-theft device which salesmen told customers was required by the state, the Department of Motor Vehicles said Monday. Complaints by the DMV and the Orange County district attorney's office against the dealership, one of several owned by Los Gatos-based Country Association Inc.

The number of Southern California Rapid Transit District drivers who may have operated buses with invalid licenses is only a small fraction of what has recently been reported, district officials said Friday. All of the bus drivers now on the road have valid credentials, and it appears the number who may have had invalid licenses before recent investigations began was at worst a little over 1% of the district's 5,000 drivers, RTD officials said.