It has been seven years since Excise and Property showed up on a Tax Day past, and I no longer have to file.
It was a staple of the local news to show the lines at the main post office of people waiting until the last minute to file, generally because they owed money.
I’ve convinced the cats that this song is really their personal version of “Happy Birthday”.
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Tales from the Cattle Chute:
I noted this year that IRS forms are no longer available at the local library or post office. You have to go to the one small IRS office. And that office ran out of 1040 instruction booklets before the filing deadline. Someone said it was all about budget cuts.
that would be the same year I got an object lesson in “be careful what you wish for.” I remember commenting somewhere on your blog a few days or weeks after this, something along the lines of “gee, now I want some kittens!” and poof!
http://hipparchia-moonlighting.blogspot.com/2007/05/its-right-here-in-black-and-white.html
I used to love driving up to the post office and handing them my envelope at 11:58pm. I haven’t done that recently, but I’ve always wondered if the postal workers hated me for making them stay up late or if they loved me for getting them some overtime pay.
That’s been the trend for a while. I had to get my forms and instructions as PDF files from the IRS web site for several years after they stopped mailing out the package to me every year. It was a pain because I would usually forget a form have to stop and pull it off the site during the middle of finalizing the package, and then find a big enough envelope to hold everything.
The workers loved it – overtime and night differential, it was a big check for collecting mail that didn’t even have to be sorted, just dumped in bags and shipped to the IRS. They used to push mail carts down the line of cars waiting to get to the Post Office.
It was a bumper year for kittens, Hipparchia.
The workers loved it – overtime and night differential
I did shift work for a few years and generally volunteered for the overtime+shift differential opportunities when they came my way, so mostly I didn’t feel too guilty about the midnight post office run.
Usually the people I saw on the line the two times I made the trek were senior day people that I recognized from working for a couple of local bulk mailers. The Post Office held seminars for bulk mailers when the laws changed significantly. That’s when I figured out that is was considered a good deal for the workers. Those guys would have had to request the job to be assigned to it.
Those guys would have had to request the job to be assigned to it.
glad to hear it.
It was probably the only exercise those guys got all year 🙂