You must be in possession of the printed receipt that the PD gets as a side-effect
of typing your raw data into the state's application database.
Not some multi-color carbon paper acknowledging receipt of your check by the town Licensing Officer.
The receipt from the state system.
I'ma go way out on a limb and claim that no one has ever been found unsuitable
for the offense of pestering the Licensing Officer to start the process as early as possible.
The new LTC is
useless before the issue date.
The
old LTC remains valid until the new one's issue date.
Except potentially for a multi-day window
(I
think something like between
when your local PD tells the state that they've printed the license,
and when they actually hand it to you.
Granted, that seems like an obscure race condition that not everyone encounters.
But it's as good as I can remember tonight...)
Anyhow,
during that period you can't conduct transactions with either license
(although presumably you're still good to possess/carry).
There's more than one NESer that has shredded the old valid license
as soon as the new one arrived; weeks before their birthday.
And then tried to use the new unripe license for a transaction.
FAIL.
Don't be that NESer.
They've had enough of your antics.
They're praying that you'll forget to renew.
"Use".
Like, Walmart gives you a free box of .22LR when you show them the new LTC,
but the cops come gunning for you
if you flash the new license at the Sporting Goods Clerk before it ripens.
I have no doubt they told you that.
But
they're living on some elevated plane above mere mortals.
That's an interesting Inside Baseball rationale right there.
Jack, they're afraid that if they provoke you,
that you'll apply for some other license
even more bureaucratically annoying than Fortune Teller.
Say, "Fence Inspector Meta-Inspector"...
The beauty about a title like that,
is that it would annoy you as much as it annoyed them.
Come to think of it, you've probably
got that license
but won't admit it on NES.