Question about the regs

[92xj]

You called at 9pm yesterday before the 11:59pm deadline?

[bobcat]

IIRC once you put in for permits you are locked in.

I believe this would be correct, after the deadline (Last night at midnight). However, he called before the deadline.

Right but as I read the OP, he had already submitted permit choices and that is the reason I think they were unwilling to make the change.

They are not obligated to make changes to your special permit applications.

I could see them possibly doing so if you had called a week before the deadline, or even a couple of days. Maybe.

But there's no way they had time when you called the day of the deadline for special permit applications.

To exchange tags you need to go to a license dealer, give them the existing tag before they can issue the replacement tag.

There just was no time for all of that.

[Bob33]

As the statement reads a change could be made until 11:59 pm.

As a practical matter, asking people working overtime who are getting slammed on one of their busiest days of the year, a few hours before a deadline which was known a month before is not going to elicit much sympathy.

[Rainier10]

As the statement reads a change could be made until 11:59 pm.

As a practical matter, asking people working overtime who are getting slammed on one of their busiest days of the year, a few hours before a deadline which was known a month before is not going to elicit much sympathy.

I can tell you with the fourth phone call last night I was getting a little frustrated.  I had been telling my friends for weeks the deadline was coming, talked about it with most of them over the weekend and still had phone calls at 830 last night from them asking what hunt numbers were.

[Timberstalker]

I can't endorse the timing of your phone call, from a practicality standpoint.

Like others have said, I bet you would have received a better response had you called a few days earlier.

Regardless, you did make your request within the allowed timeline.

[JimmyHoffa]

Agree, the timing of trying to get it corrected probably wasn't optimal, but the contract you bought the application under was good until mid-night.  So it should be honored.  They should have a lot more folks able to handle admin now, since there's not much in the way of fish to check on. 

[bobcat]

They don't exchange tags over the phone, you have to go to a license dealer. And it can only be done during WDFW business hours.

[bobcat]

Page 5 of the hunting reg's-

"Exchanges of hunting license documents will not be made after applying for a special permit"

[Woodchuck]

I just found that to. Winner. Ol Woodchuck ain't so dumb after all.

[724wd]

Ol Woodchuck ain't so dumb after all.

 

[scoutdog346]

I just got iff the phone with them and they DID make the change for me...thank god!  Thanks for the info guys!

[Rainier10]

Good deal.

Did they make you promise to never complain about how long it takes to post draw results after the deadline?

[Timberstalker]

I just found that to. Winner. Ol Woodchuck ain't so dumb after all.

No one called you dumb......
Stupid, maybe. Lol. Just kidding.

Glad they swapped your tags out.

[scoutdog346]

They made the chang for me today...thanks guys!