As seen at Insura nce Journal:
Governor M. Jodi Rell is advising Connecticut motorists that they will soon receive new motor vehicle registration stickers that will be placed inside the windshield rather than on the rear license plate - an effort to thwart thieves who often target the stickers and sell them.[.]
Because the stickers are not easily removed from license plates, thieves often cut off the corner of the plate with the sticker still attached, and then sell them to unscrupulous car dealers or other individuals.
That’s annoying. It’s been a rite of the new year turning for me since I was in elementary school, to keep an eye out for the first new sticker on license plates, to see what the new sticker color was going to be. This could put a crimp in that hobby..as well as rendering the windshield a bit nasty.
Strangely, I haven’t seen too many “partial plates” in Connecticut, at least as compared to how common they were when I was growing up in Memphis