There�s one unfriendly reminder of the anniversary of purchasing a car.

It�s the dreaded license plate renewal card. But what if you received two of them in a matter of days?

Don�t panic.

Pueblo County Clerk and Recorder Gilbert �Bo� Ortiz said Monday to ignore the second one.

Ortiz said the state�s printer, Integrated Document Solutions, duplicated and mailed last month�s notices to Pueblo County citizens.

The company is in Pueblo�s Industrial Park.

�We contract with them to send out our renewal cards, telling people that they have two months or whatever to renew their license plates. If their renewal is due in May, then they have until the end of June to pay,� Ortiz said.

Ortiz said the company sends out about 13,000 cards every month.

�They sent the May renewals out twice. A lot of people had already paid for their renewal fees and then they got another bill from us telling them that they still owe the renewal price,� Ortiz said.

Ortiz said his office has received several calls on the issue.

�We realized that there was a mistake last Wednesday and I have posted on the county clerk and recorder�s Facebook page for people to ignore the second renewal notices,� Ortiz said.

In a notice sent from the Colorado Division of Central Services, officials with the printer company apologized for the inconvenience this has caused and is working on a new process to help prevent this from happening again.

There will be �a better quality check procedure,� the notice said.

The correct renewal notices for the month of June have been reprinted and were mailed out on Thursday.

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