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why both cannot mail to mailing address? Ontario (Your driver's licence will be sent to the residential address on file,

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why both cannot mail to mailing address? Ontario (Your driver's licence will be sent to the residential address on file,

why both cannot mail to mailing address? Ontario

(Your driver's licence will be sent to the residential address on file, and your health card will be sent to the mailing address on file. It is important to keep both your mailing and residential addresses up-to-date.)

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What did Service Ontario say?
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Unless there's any Service Ontario and OHIP representatives on here....
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Probably to stop someone from setting a residential address in Kapuskasing while their mailing address is in Brampton?
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You can register both a mailing address and a residence address with the MTO but your licence is supposed to show where you actually live.
You can get a ticket for Fail to Notify Change of Address if you get stopped and the officer finds out that you don't actually live at the address shown.

Since Health cards now expire when your drivers license expire ( providing you have a drivers license ) they will compare both addresses when you renew as you are required to supply your correct residential address for both departments.

And what exactly in the big deal ???
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luckystrike1 wrote: You can register both a mailing address and a residence address with the MTO but your licence is supposed to show where you actually live.
You can get a ticket for Fail to Notify Change of Address if you get stopped and the officer finds out that you don't actually live at the address shown.
Found this posted on Quora

Answer to Can I use the mailing address for a driver’s license in Ontario, Canada instead of the address where I really live? by Al Verwey https://www.quora.com/Can-I-use-the-mai ... ype=answer
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CorSter wrote: Probably to stop someone from setting a residential address in Kapuskasing while their mailing address is in Brampton?
Or someone renewing for you and steal your identity by mailing it somewhere else.
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Dhanushan wrote: Found this posted on Quora

Answer to Can I use the mailing address for a driver’s license in Ontario, Canada instead of the address where I really live? by Al Verwey https://www.quora.com/Can-I-use-the-mai ... ype=answer
the real answer is, you need to have where you actually live, some times auto insurance is cheaper if you put your grandmas address but don't actually live there, they want to avoid that because its fraudulent,
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I suspect this is to prevent misuse, identity theft, exploitations of Canada laws and banking theft.

Criminals can reroute your mailing address and with both pieces of ID they can do a lot of damage (I.e. sell your home, open bank accounts, credit cards, new passport, etc.)

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