I Surrender!

Nothing like getting a piece of mail that makes you feel like a criminal within the first sentence.  I recently received a letter from the city clerk’s office in my former place of residence and the very first sentence was this:

“We have been notified by the Secretary of State that you may have surrendered your Michigan drivers license...”

Is anyone else a little put off by the use of surrendered there?  I read that and at first I thought I was in major trouble and started racking my brain trying to figure out what I might have done wrong!  Then I read it again and realized they were just referring to me handing over my MI license when I got my new TN license and were wanting to confirm that I wanted my voting privileges revoked. 

Thank you state of Michigan for temporarily freaking me out!