When you buy a hunting license on line in PA, you are not buying the license from a place in PA, you are buying it from a company that owns the computer program that creates the license and they are in another state and create and sell licenses for many states. Thay are staffed 24 hours a day. It is not a trick that you can buy a license @ 12:01am the day they go one sale, it has always been that way since point of sale license sales ocurred via computer.