Postal office stealing tax refund checks

[Jeremy]

Anyone ever had this happen? Now that I’ve overcome the hurdle that is the irs, a rejected dd and now waiting for a check, I’m stressing over someone stealing that sh^t.

[Anonymous]

The one that had to be mailed to me came within 5 days, no problem. 2 years ago though, not this year… I would be more concerned about someone taking it out of your box than the postal service doing it. I buy a lot of things from ebay, like a couple hundred things a month and in over a year only one thing hasn’t been delivered. Not a bad average at all. I’m sure a postal employee, especially being a government employee themselves, would know that they wouldn’t be able to do squat with it.

That’s why so many are having to get paper checks mailed, they are so strict about names matching for federal refund checks. Prepaid cards even more so, but I’ve seen all sorts of banks reject for names not matching.

The what ifs are unbearable aren’t they? I’m right there too, I just found out I was put in 4 days later than when I filed. So while everyone else on the date I filed has their money, I don’t even have a DDD yet, transcripts reading all zeros…. At least I have a 2014 transcript though, it means they’re working on it. I’ve set myself up not to expect an update until at least Tuesday.

Oh and in all my experience with mail, I also sell online, first class which is under 13 oz, (so that’s what it would be sent as since it’s so lightweight) goes really quick. I believe the Irs sends out of Georgia or near there, so depending on how close you are, it could be 2 or 3 days even from mailing. Here’s hoping for 2 day mail time for you!

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