The Mailbox runeth over
It is very telling that one of the first things that you get when you start doing your taxes in TurboTax is the option to prepare the automatic extension form. It's called "knowing your customer" and it's one of the reasons why Intuit is going to rule the earth. Speaking of which, Addie is convinced that there is this vast horde, comprised of people from H&R Block, Intuit and other companies that make money off of tax preparation, furiously lobbying congress to never allow a flat tax but to keep taxes arcane and complicated.
Anyway, it took me less than 5 minutes to prepare and print my extension form. I dropped it off at the post office drive through mailbox on the way to work. Interestingly there already was a line of cars and the mailbox was chock full of mail. I actually had to cram in my envelope pass the others that were almost spilling out.
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You could have saved the stamped and phoned your extension in...several people here at work have done and found it very user friendly.
I dropped my taxes off at the downtown post office after being rejected for jury service.
You also could have filed electronically.
Well I refuse to pay in order to file electronically. It costs the IRS more to process a paper return than to process an electronic return, yet they charge me a premium for the later. I don't THINK so! If I weren't lazy, I'd hand write my tax return to give them more of an incentive to make e-filing free.