I mailed a check to the IRS on October 23 or 24. In the middle of November I got a letter, dated November 4, saying that I still owed the money. However, my bank cleared the check on November 3, so the IRS must have gotten the check earlier. OK, so that could have been one group processing the input and another putting out the notice. When I got the notice I wrote them a letter, including a copy of the cancelled check, showing that I had paid. The postmark on the letter was November 17. Today, January 4, I got the letter back. The date on the "undeliverable" sticker from the US Post Office was December 22. The unusual thing was that I had used the return form, with the address clearly showing through the window: INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE AUR CORRESPONDENCE 5-E08-113 PHILADELPHIA PA 19255-0521 This was followed by a bar code, also visible through the window. Below the window I added USA, as I was mailing it from outside the country. It must have gotten to the USA, as the return sticker was from the US Post office. A reverse ZIP code lookup on the USPS site says that 19255 is for the IRS. So why did my letter get refused?Was the Post Office in a dispute with the IRS, refusing to deliver the mail? Was the 0521 suffix deleted, and the IRS too stupid to accept mail to it? Or what?
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12 years ago