Comment by corint

> If it makes you more money to be available 24/7 then why wouldn't you?

Agreed, but for a government service where you update your license, or tell them about selling a car or something, there's no real 'more' money. Being closed at 3am doesn't lose the opportunity in the way that it would if you were selling widgets. It instead forces the would-be users at 3am to wait until the morning.