I understand the due date for taxes was April 15. Since I filed electronically months ago, it didn’t occur to me that the only mail the USPS wants to deal with is tax-related.
I suppose it is just poor timing, but the title to an old car needed to be mailed to Texas. In DH’s divorce decree it spells out that the X gets the car, but he gets the payments. When it is paid off, he signs over the title and all that. All of his paperwork was finally ready to send of to his X. It was notorized and everything.
It was mailed certified on Wednesday with one of those little green cards saying it was delivered. It was supposed to be delivered to Texas.
It wasn’t.
The little green card came back yesterday indicating a “Tax Franchise Board Sacramento” delivery. Hmmm… tracking the number online confirms it was delivered to Sacramento, CA.
Thus I pit the USPS. Perhaps they need a large sign:
“Anything mailed with a little green card will automatically be delivered to the Tax Franchise Board.”
I’m not sure if it will be more of a hassle to try to track down that letter or start all over at the Motor Vehicles Department. I’m sure they will help me as soon as I explain: I lost the title because the postman delivered it to the California tax people.
I’ve read this post twice today - for some reason the expression on my imaginary person reading a mis-confirmed delivery notice just cracks me up. Sort of 3 parts , 2 parts :dubious: and 1 part :mad:
Well I can understand it. After all – Texas, Taxes – Same letters, just a slightly different arrangement.
OK, I’m just kidding. My sympathies. The US Postal Service does have a very high accuracy rate, but when it does go wrong, it usually is a royal pain. Especially when you have gone through the extra effort and expense of getting a return receipt. Make sure you talk with the Post Office Manager to try to sort it out. I hope it all works out well.
How could they have missed the zipcode, that’s what I’d like to know. Don’t they run envelopes through machines to scan the zipcodes, or did the counter person throw it into the “tax” bin without a thought, because they were locked into a mental rut? The reason they even use the numbers is because they are more legible than words, so they don’t mix up Texas and Taxes, because they have completely different numerical codes. Sheesh. They dropped the ball, big time, and you should call this to the Post Master’s attention so that he can remind his staff to be more careful.
Holy cow, a government run operation that delivered this many pieces of mail in 2004 miss delivers your one letter during the busiest time of year, and you pit them. Wow, just wow.
Sorry about the bad link, just click on “operating statistics” on the linked page for a truley staggering picture of the amount of mail delivered. Notice that the number is in millions of units. Over 206,000 million, thats a bunch of mail.
I just wanted to defend the USPS too - since I don’t have a lot of money to call India regularly, they are the main contact between me and my extended family.
Oh I’ll join in the pitting. They don’t like delivering mail to my address for some reason. Every once in a while, the post office picks a target, and doesn’t deliver an occupant’s mail. Sometimes they’ll hold a package at the office and not tell anyone and the package gets returned to sender. We only find out about it when the sender contacts us about it. Lately, they’ve been holding letters and things that my parents have been sending and returning them for random reasons. Some letters get through, while others, addressed in exactly the same way (we’ve kept the originals to compare) get sent back. I haven’t figured it out yet. Everything is correct, including postage.
, 2 parts :dubious: and 1 part :mad: