Mail delivery

Forum|Forum|3 months ago
March 31, 2026
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Mail delivery has really sucked this tax season. I mailed out a couple of returns recently within a 45 mile radius of our office a week or so ago. I also mailed out a return to Montana and another to Kansas on the same day as the local packages. Everything goes out priority mail so that I can track the packages, so why did the four returns leave the same day and arrive on the same day even though there is a wee bit of difference in distance?

And as a side note, I received a package in the mail yesterday from a Minnesota client. An hour later I get an e-mail from the client saying "I see our package arrived. We will be leaving town on April 11th so we will need to have everything signed before then". Stuff like that is what is going to cause me to be a real candidate for the group W bench. 😬

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TaxGuyBill

Level 15

Last year I mailed a tax return to a fellow Minneapolis-suburb resident, about 10 miles away.

The tracking showed it spent a week in Texas. Then a few days in Oklahoma. Then back to Texas for a few days. Eventually back to Minnesota and to the client.

IRonMaNAuthor

Level 15

I had one like that last year too, but the rest went smoothly. This year the wheels have fallen off the mail truck.

Slava Ukraini!

dascpa

Level 11

Every tax return I mail is done Priority Mail with Tracking. Costs more and I add it to the client;s billing. you're correct, regular mail sucks.

Skylane

Intuit Community Champion

“your package addressed to someone across the street will travel 300 miles or so round trip”

if you remember Goldman Sachs and the aluminum can shell game, the USPS is following the same business model by inflating distance traveled in order to increase local pricing

If at first you don’t succeed…..find a workaround

Just-Lisa-Now-

Intuit Community Champion

Super slow this year out here in CA too!

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IRonMaNAuthor

Level 15

As long as I'm here, I'm just wondering if anybody knows the answer to this one. Ironwoman received an e-mail from a client providing some additional information to finish her return. We have her teenage daughter's return done, but in the e-mail, she added something additional for her daughter. She mentioned that besides the W-2s that we already have, the kid worked two events for a food truck last year. She didn't provide any dollar amounts, 1099s, or W-2s for that activity. So does anybody know what the standard rate is for picking up income per event so I can redo the kid's return? 🙄

Slava Ukraini!

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