On the DMV...AArgh!

Why is it all DMV's are the same? So last month I got a notice in the mail telling me I had to renew my drivers license in December.  No big deal I thought, thinking I could go online and submit the info.  Then I read the letter, and it stated that since I received the letter it meant I could not go online to renew.  Crap. I went to our local DMV back in 2003 when we first moved here, and with