When I moved my office to the office building on Main Street I got a P. O. box at the post office across the street. I generally sent my assistant there every day
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We've had problems with this. Packages addressed to the house go to the box. On and off. When I ask they say I'm only supposed to get mail in one place. So I avoid usps and FedEx for packages (FedEx delivers by usps in my neighborhood)
I just went and checked: even though I was at my home office for the 2015 tax returns, I couldn't get my address changed in time for my efile credentials and ended up using the PO box for 2015 tax returns, too.
That means that I need to get mail about these returns through October 15, 2019.
That's another 2.5 years.
I may not need to keep it for that long - people move, after all. But I'll keep it for at least six more months and probably 18 more months and then let it forward for a year.
Don't you think that if you canceled the PO box they'd bring it around to your house? I mean, if they knew enough to put it in the box, they'd know enough to bring it to your house.
This is the central concern I have about government-run single-payer health insurance. "Government worker" just isn't associated in my mind with "conscientious and hard-working".
When I was pregnant, our old mail guy asked if I ever lived around the corner. Yeah, I said. Six years ago. He said there was a box in the hallway over there addressed to me, which legally he couldn't bring over here because it had been delivered to that address. But since we both know that door is never locked, nothing would stop me from going over and collecting the box of baby things a friend had sent to my old address... Government workers, like all workers (ahem, like receptionist help, haha) are a mixed bag. (Seriously I clicked on this entry thinking FOR SURE it was going to be a story about a long-delayed after-effect of something Willow did.) With all our mail-order businesses, we've had a lot of really helpful and wonderful experiences with our local postal staff -- over time they've more than made up for the gaffes. (Though this one of yours is admittedly a big one!!)
So, hilariously, this morning I walked out onto our kitchen porch to find out that the packing boxes I ordered from Amazon Prime had for some reason been shipped via UPS, who for some reason often puts things on that porch. Which is usually fine, except the driver didn't bother to take the two extra steps to put them *all the way* onto the porch. Which meant they were hanging half over the steps. And therefore got totally soaked in the rain overnight. Whoops.
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I just went and checked: even though I was at my home office for the 2015 tax returns, I couldn't get my address changed in time for my efile credentials and ended up using the PO box for 2015 tax returns, too.
That means that I need to get mail about these returns through October 15, 2019.
That's another 2.5 years.
I may not need to keep it for that long - people move, after all. But I'll keep it for at least six more months and probably 18 more months and then let it forward for a year.
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