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Originally Posted by dksuddeth
no need to prove it. i'll take your word for it. I've heard alot of stories about audits and revocations due to stupid paperwork things like abbreviating a state instead of spelling it all out. is this real or hype?
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I really don't know. I was moving to Mexico and my renewal was up, I didn't want fork out the money knowing I wouldn't have use for it here and decided to just cancel. First I just didn't pay, figured if they didn't get my cash they'd just cancel it and that would be that. Then I got a letter. So I called the PDX office and explained I was quitting. "Well, that's totally different. You need to send in a copy of every transaction you ever processed as well as your original unsigned permit and a letter requesting to cancel." I told the guy I would send in what I had but I'd had a water pipe freeze and burst flooding my home office, some of the older stuff might be missing." "Well, that might be a problem, you need to find those records." I ended up sending them a box of stuff including a bunch of unreadable, stuck together files and forms. We traded letters and phone calls, mostly professional, for a while and they complained about the unreadable paperwork. Eventually I stopped hearing from them. After moving here I went through some old files and tax records I'd toted down here and I found my original license. Turns out I never did send it in and I do not remember writing any letter. Meh. Have never heard a word about it. I think about it sometimes when I go through customs whenever I return stateside. I figure knowing the feds at some point some suit is going to ask me about the missing items. So far the only odd event I've had with customs is the last time I went to see my father the man at Houston stated "ok, your eyes are blue." I thought "What? WTF does that mean?" I still have no idea what he meant by that, but I passed through without incident.