Excellent! Lots of old cars being preserved and used. Heritage saved!
Cheers, Matt.

Was issued today at Burwood.... So that's it for this series of H plates, and that's 100,000 sets since 2005 when this style kicked off.
Also, as one of mine is in the low 86000-H range and was issued early March this year, that means they handed out 14,000 sets in 9 months.....
The new style is the same layout with the range being 0002-H2 to 9999-H9. Some combinations of 0, 1 and 5 are not available due to confusion with other plates.

some are used as 'cheap rego' or a way around getting an Engineers certificate and not all conditions are complied with.

Mine is in 20,000 range so a heck of a lot of cars on H reg in 6 yrs since I got mine.

New plate range seen today.

They did start at 02. First one was 0002-H2.
The last H was issued on December 4, so that means they've already issued over 1000 of the new style as well.....

Nowhere near 500 a day. Burwood is one of the biggest and they do around 25 a day. Just depends on what number range is sent to what office at what time.
The last, being 99999-H was issued on December 4 at Burwood. The next lot they had was around the 6000-H2 mark.
Apparently at least 2 regional offices have a few H series left while others are into the H4's already so is luck of the draw where you go and what they have at the time because some offices get thru them quickly (25 or more a day) while others might do 5 a week, at most.

Exactly.
I don't think anyone could put an accurate number on how many CPS cars there are other than VicRoads themselves, and even that would change from day to day accordingly.
Plates come in a box of 50 pairs, so somewhere like Burwood would get 2 or 3 boxes a week. Small regional offices might only get 1 box every 2 or 3 months.... It all depends on the demands of each place. Obviously they're sent to the offices as a "next box of the stack" scenario, so some places might get (for argument sake) numbers within a thousand of the last lot they had, but others might see lots that are 10's of thousands apart. And obviously then while some offices are now issuing the newer H2, H3, H4 style, there's still the odd place that have some of the old H stock left.
As said, it's really just luck of the draw.

Was issued today at Burwood.... So that's it for this series of H plates, and that's 100,000 sets since 2005 when this style kicked off.
Also, as one of mine is in the low 86000-H range and was issued early March this year, that means they handed out 14,000 sets in 9 months.....
The new style is the same layout with the range being 0002-H2 to 9999-H9. Some combinations of 0, 1 and 5 are not available due to confusion with other plates.

New plate range seen today.