Mail those tax forms early and beat the rush!
With the deadline for filing income tax returns rapidly approaching, the Postal Service is bracing itself for the annual onslaught of last minute filers.
The Postal Service offers the following advice to tax filers:
- Try to mail as early in the day as possible.
- Always include your return address on your mailpiece.
- Be certain to weigh your returns or extension requests on a postal scale and affix the proper amount of postage. This is especially true if you are filing extra forms or schedules this year. Tax agencies will not pay postage due, so short-paid tax filings must be returned for additional postage. Ordinarily, that means you’ll miss the deadline.
Postal customers can easily avoid a trip to the main Post Office by mailing their returns or extension requests early in the day at any of the Post Offices, stations, branches or collection boxes in their community. However, tax filers using a collection box should make certain that the posted pick-up time has not passed to ensure returns will receive the April 15 postmark.
Last minute tax filers can mail their tax return until midnight at eight locations on April 15, this year’s tax deadline, and still receive a postmark. Additionally, these Post Offices will offer extended retail window hours until 8 p.m. on Tax Night. (Refer to attached listing).
Automated Postal Centers (APCs) are available at 19 area Post Offices. Using a debit or credit card, customers can use the APC to weigh and mail their tax returns or regular mail and packages 24 hour a day, 7 days a week, at most locations.
The Post Offices listed below will extend their retail window hours until 8 p.m. on April 15. Additionally, customers can mail their taxes at these locations until 11:59:59 p.m. on Tax Night and still receive an April 15 postmark. An asterisk donates an office with an Automated Postal Center.
2008 April 15 Tax Night Extended Hours
| Post Office/Location | Postmark | Window closes at: |
|---|---|---|
| East York Branch* 3435 Concord Road East York |
Midnight | 8 p.m. |
| Harrisburg Main Post Office* 1425 Crooked Hill Road Harrisburg |
Midnight | 8 p.m. |
| Lancaster Main Post Office* 1400 Harrisburg Pike Lancaster |
Midnight | 8 p.m. |
| Lehigh Valley Post Office* 17 South Commerce Way Lehigh Valley |
Midnight | 8 p.m. |
| Reading/Gus Yatron* 2100 North 13 TH Street Reading |
Midnight | 8 p.m. |
| Scranton Main Post Office* 2800 Stafford Avenue Scranton |
Midnight | 8 p.m. |
| Williamsport Main Post Office 2901 Reach Road Williamsport |
Midnight | 8 p.m. |
| Wilkes-Barre Main Post Office* 300 South Main Street Wilkes-Barre |
Midnight | 8 p.m. |
Additionally, Automated Postal Centers are located at these Post Offices:
Bethlehem, Chambersburg, Easton Palmer Branch, Gettysburg, Hanover, Lower Paxton Branch (Harrisburg), Mechanicsburg, Shillington, Reading Station, West York Branch (York), Whitehall and Wyomissing.
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