My Damn Opinion - Your tax dollars at work

Maybe this is my fault. Who knows? But here's the situation I found when I came home.

I snagged my mail out of my mailbox as I was walking in, hoping to finally see my Federal Tax refund. I need that to go towards a deposit on a new place so I can get the hell out of here. I was forced to mail it because when I attempted their bullshit online tax filing, the return was rejected because they "didn't like the pin number I created for their website." Yes, that was in the message they sent me. Whatever, screw you. The CO State IRS website worked like a charm and I had my refund in something like two weeks, it was awesome. But if you all want to fuck with me like this, fine.

So I grab my mail, and I'm walking back in and I realize that I'm holding my Federal Tax Return envelope in my hand, only it's had a few additions to it. When I pulled it from the booklet, it had the address of the IRS office conveniently pre-printed on it, so all I had to do was attach some exorbitantly high postage to it, and send it away. However, I find that it's been returned to me now, and I am concerned as to why. I check the corner - still has the stamps on it. I check the other corner - addressed with my return address, otherwise they couldn't have gotten it to me.

Anyone care to guess why it was returned?

NOT DELIVERABLE AS ADDRESSED.

I don't know for sure, but I'm willing to bet that the IRS Return processing office gets more mail than any other location in the United States. I'll bet the post office handles millions and millions of those envelopes. It's the single most mailed item in the country. Those envelopes are pretty distinctive, because they're a little bigger than most, and they have the address preprinted on the front.

So now, having been robbed of my postage, I will be going to a goddamn fucking Postal counter tomorrow and I'm going to put this envelope in a Post Master's hands, and I'm going to have that person inspect it themselves and confirm that it is fit for delivery. I'm sure that will cost me several dollars, but whatever extortion I need to pay to get this shit done, I guess I'm going to have to deal with.