LOCAL POST OFFICE 'TAX NIGHT' OPERATIONS FOR APRIL 15, 2008

Lubbock Post Office Offers Last Minute Tax Filers Two Midnight Collection Points Monterey Station Post Office extending window service hours

LUBBOCK, TX —Tax day, Tuesday, April 15, is just around the corner and the U.S. Postal Service again wants to make tax day less taxing. Area residents will have a choice of two locations to drop off those tax mail returns into the late hours on April 15, with both locations providing drop-off until midnight.

The Lubbock Monterey Station located at 5014 Gary retail window will be open until midnight, April 15, with tax return mail collection until midnight. Postage, envelopes, and special services will be available at the Monterey Station location. Customers may also use the collection location located at 1515 Crickets until midnight in order to receive the April 15, 2008 postmark.

Customers can call the postal customer line at 1-800-ASK-USPS (1-800-275-8777) to find their nearest April 15 late tax mail collection site.

Below are important tax mail tips.

Tax Mail tips:
• Apply proper postage and stamps, especially with extra forms/schedules. It costs 41 cents for the first ounce; 17 cents for each additional ounce. One ounce is about four pages. Oversized envelopes require additional postage.
• The IRS does not accept postage due mail, all mail with insufficient postage will be returned to sender.
•If you use a non-IRS labeled envelope, make sure you print the proper IRS address.
• Print your return address in the upper-left-hand corner of your tax mail envelope.
• Customers who wish to have certification that their tax mail form is received by IRS, should mail it using Certified Mail Service/Return Receipt - available at your local post office.
• While encouraged to mail before April 15; if you do wait until Tax Day; be sure to drop off your tax mail return at a designated postal location that offers late tax mail pick-up.
• Tax returns mail using stamps for postage and weighing over 13 ounces must be handed in person to a USPS employee. A clerk will be on duty at Lubbock's Monterey Station, and all last minute tax returns weighing over 13 ounces need to be handed directly to the clerk on duty and not deposited directly in a collection box or these will be returned.
• Customers with tax questions can contact the IRS at 1-800-829-1040; or www.irs.gov

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An independent federal agency, the U.S. Postal Service is the only delivery service that visits every address in the nation — 146 million homes and businesses. It has 37,000 retail locations and relies on the sale of postage, products and services to pay for operating expenses, not tax dollars. The Postal Service has annual revenues of $75 billion and delivers nearly half the world’s mail.