When I tried because my apartment towed my car after they thought the tabs were expired but not, the DOL said they get the plates with stickers already on them and never get the month stickers separately. That's why sometimes near the end of the month you can't get a plate because they run out of them with the current month's sticker. I'm still fighting to get that fixed because at the end of the month, it will again look like my tabs are expired even though I have more than six months to go before they actually expire.