What A Rip

I don't know about where you live but have you seen any new license plates in your state lately? I have and I'm not happy. It seems to me, and correct me if I'm wrong, that they are no longer manufacturing stamped license plates. This is at least true of vanity plates and at elast some specialty plates. The new plates are still metal but they have the letters somehow "applied" to them, like they're vinyl stick-on or something. Isn't this the type of cheaply manufactured crud we buy as novelty plates at the grocery store and tacky tourist stops? I'll tell you what, I'm keeping my real license plate as long as I can.