In the area surrounding the Chelsea Market you'll see a fair number of expired NYPD permits. This Scooby Doo-style van has one from Technical Support Services. Irrespective of their expired status—and Mayor Bloomberg isn't going to renew a lot of them, ever—this van owner has Pennsylvania plates and parks daily in a No Standing US Mail zone. Which means—if you bother to regularly observe the mail trucks trying to unload at this post office—they have to block traffic and/or the bike lane as a result. On the other side of Ninth Avenue, the street can't even be cleaned in the morning because so many vehicles sporting a variety of NYPD/federal permits park semi-permanently in the No Standing 7am-10am zone. Solution: garage those cars or take public transportation. And register your vehicle in New York State, please; it's the law.