Ok, brilliant question time...
where in the heck are you guys laminating your shrunken permits?!
If you don’t have a laminator (and some of the small ones are fairly inexpensive), you have three choices. First, go to a copy shop (Kinko’s, Office Max/Depot, Staples, etc.) and pay a couple of bucks. Second, they sell no-heat sleeves that you can slide these things into – where they basically glue themselves together. And third (just to demonstrate how cheap I am on some of this stuff), you can buy the heat-seal sleeves and (are ya ready?) get out the iron and a towel. Heat up the iron, place the sleeve with the ID in it down on the table/ironing board, and lay the towel over it. And, yes, IRON your laminated sleeve on. Hey, it works.