{"id":708931,"date":"2010-04-05T10:00:58","date_gmt":"2010-04-05T14:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"tag:consumerist.com,2010:\/\/1.10004124"},"modified":"2010-04-05T01:24:27","modified_gmt":"2010-04-05T05:24:27","slug":"usps-certifies-my-tax-doc-package-as-lost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/708931","title":{"rendered":"USPS Certifies My Tax Doc Package As Lost"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/consumerist.com\/assets_c\/2010\/04\/doug-thumb-158x105-38922.jpg?w=780\">         <\/p>\n<p>Tax preparer Robert thought a sure way to get his tax documents to a client would be to ship them via USPS&#8217;s Certified mail. Turned out he may as well have turned to <a href=\"http:\/\/interact.stltoday.com\/blogzone\/viral-videos\/uncategorized\/2008\/12\/let-virginia-horsens-pony-express-handle-those-holiday-cards\/\">Virgania Horsen<\/a>. USPS says the package is at a particular post office location but says it can&#8217;t find it.<\/p>\n<p>Robert writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I&#8217;m a tax preparer, with a client in San Francisco. I&#8217;m not in California, so I mailed him his taxes via USPS&#8217;s Priority mail and Certified (someone has to sign for it).<\/p>\n<p>I mailed the Priority envelope on February 19th and, according to the tracking, it made it to the USPS office [redacted]. My client went to that location inquiring to why he hadn&#8217;t received it and if he could have it. They told him they had it, but couldn&#8217;t find it. It&#8217;s now a month a half later and the tracking still indicates that they have it.<\/p>\n<p>The [redacted] Post Office has been no help, even to my local Post Office who has written to them.<\/p>\n<p>This isn&#8217;t someone&#8217;s birthday card, it is someone&#8217;s taxes with their personal information on it.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Well, at least Robert and his client still have plenty of time left to get the tax return in order. Oh, wait. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tax preparer Robert thought a sure way to get his tax documents to a client would be to ship them via USPS&#8217;s Certified mail. Turned out he may as well have turned to Virgania Horsen. USPS says the package is at a particular post office location but says it can&#8217;t find it. Robert writes: I&#8217;m [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2903,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-708931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2Yqn","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2903"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=708931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708931\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=708931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=708931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=708931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}