01/01/2026
Happy New Year 2026.
I would like to provide you all with a little bit of information on some interesting changes in government during this coming week so stay tuned over this coming week.
First and MOST important change that you may not be aware of if you file your taxes by mail or if you are doing something simple like filing for an extension of time to file your taxes by mail. The United States Postal Service aka the Post Office has changed how they post mark a mailing. In simple terms, a postmark date will be applied at the first point of processing your mailing. So what does this mean? Prior to this change, if you dropped off your mail to the post office on tax deadline day (normally April 15) then you were considered to have met the deadline. Upon this change, that is in effect NOW, putting your letter in the post box or postal slot at the local post office on deadline day may or may NOT meet the deadline as your mailing will be postmarked at the earliest point of processing which may occur on the day(s) following the deadline, making you LATE.
If you don't want to worry if you will be late or not and you are filing whatever you need to file on the deadline day by mail I would suggest that you go to the counter at the post office and have them postmark your mailing then and there in front of you for your comfort in knowing you filed by the deadline.
The Postal Service is adding section 608.11, "Postmarks and Postal Possession," to the Domestic Mail Manual (DMM). This new section defines postmarks, identifies the types of Postal Service markings that qualify as postmarks, and describes the circumstances under which those markings are applied....
