I got two letters from the IRS today. This would normally be concerning, but I’m not, because I know exactly what’s inside them. The reason? Because I get the same two letters every single month, like clockwork.
Here’s the first letter. It explains how they’ve changed my address, and that I will NOT be getting mail at this address anymore.
Here’s the second letter. It declares this is my new address, and that I’ll be getting mails here henceforth.
Because I’ve tinted the words, you can see the difference is between “STREET” and “ST”.
You may wonder why I get these each month. Well, it’s because my payroll processing service dutifully sends the IRS information each month about our massive employee payroll (that would be one person; specifically, me) and, in doing so, provides my company address. It shows the address, I suppose, as “Street”, which the IRS prefers to be “St.” (or vice versa; it hardly matters). This triggers their computers to spend a few bucks printing, assembling, and mailing two separate notices to me.
Every. Single. Month.
This will, of course, go on until the end of time. And, over the lifespan of this nonsense, some hundreds of dollars will be spent. A spit in the ocean, right? Yes, right.
But it’s a marvelous example of just how clumsy, broken, and wasteful any government is, right down to the most trivial nonsense such as this minuscule example I’ve provided.
