Or, well, actually all too believable.
Those of you who followed my "Can't live on a boat anymore thread." will get a chuckle.
http://forums.sbo.sailboatowners.com/showthread.php?t=153918
You'll remember that I called the DMV about the situation of becoming a person living and traveling on a boat without a fixed Maine address and was assured that my license would become null and void upon my no longer having "a legally binding document" tying me to a physical location in Maine.
The UPS Store that is now my mail agent warned me not to use their address for my license or car registration.
I just called the DMV and told them I was moving from Portland to Bath because I couldn't find a license change on the DMV web site. The representative said she could take it over the phone. "Street address or mailing address?", I asked.
"Mailing address."
I explained the dual address situation just to find out more and she said the South Portland mailing address would be fine!
The reason for all the different information and experiences about issues like this is that the right hand doesn't know what the left hand is doing in these departments and the head certainly doesn't know what either hand is doing.
There still is the issue that the mail agency service of the UPS Store does need to have a physical address behind it. I'd just as soon not flirt with the possibility of postal fraud. I can also now still vote in Maine since I have a basis for registering in Bath, Maine.
If I'd known it was so easy to keep my license though, I probably wouldn't have bothered, or bothered all of you, with this. OTOH, if someone else at the DMV had taken the call, it might have been a totally different story. That seems to be the way things work now.
Those of you who followed my "Can't live on a boat anymore thread." will get a chuckle.
http://forums.sbo.sailboatowners.com/showthread.php?t=153918
You'll remember that I called the DMV about the situation of becoming a person living and traveling on a boat without a fixed Maine address and was assured that my license would become null and void upon my no longer having "a legally binding document" tying me to a physical location in Maine.
The UPS Store that is now my mail agent warned me not to use their address for my license or car registration.
I just called the DMV and told them I was moving from Portland to Bath because I couldn't find a license change on the DMV web site. The representative said she could take it over the phone. "Street address or mailing address?", I asked.
"Mailing address."
I explained the dual address situation just to find out more and she said the South Portland mailing address would be fine!
The reason for all the different information and experiences about issues like this is that the right hand doesn't know what the left hand is doing in these departments and the head certainly doesn't know what either hand is doing.
There still is the issue that the mail agency service of the UPS Store does need to have a physical address behind it. I'd just as soon not flirt with the possibility of postal fraud. I can also now still vote in Maine since I have a basis for registering in Bath, Maine.
If I'd known it was so easy to keep my license though, I probably wouldn't have bothered, or bothered all of you, with this. OTOH, if someone else at the DMV had taken the call, it might have been a totally different story. That seems to be the way things work now.
