Rant on shipping

[dragoneggs]

Maybe we need to start a pillow thread?

 

[ultrarunner]

Easy to take for granted but the wrong pillow is a nightmare.

 

[user.69169]

Maybe we need to start a pillow thread?

Can we call it Puff de Magic Pillow?

Found out one dirty deal Post Office up to today. Most shipments from China containerized at airport of arrival and hauled by shipping contractor to last USPS distribution point. China got deal on postal rates because USPS only final link in delivery chain. Long as shipment in trailer it is NOT US Mail so it can sit forever far as USPS Union cares. Scanners don't like the labels so lot of it get kicked to manual. Rochester got trailers full behind sorting facility and more trailers sitting at Thruway compound till dey get to feeling like sorting for delivery. Other places probably got de same.

 

[BravoXray]

Strange thing, I just got a letter from IRS today saying I owe over $5000 in back taxes from last year. They claim I figured the taxes on my social security checks wrong and want to tax me on $30,000 more social security payments than I received. They say if I don't agree with it and pay it that they will send an auditor out to audit my records. It is easy to prove that I never received as much social security as they claimed but doing that is not an option. It seems like blackmail to me. Some people would rather pay the $5000 than have themselves audited for the last 7 years.

When I had my trucking business, I was on a first name basis with the local IRS auditor, got audited every toe or three years. He only ever found anything that cost me more taxes once, about $1200, but after my CPA looked at the reason for the additional tax, he refiled five years previous returns and got me $4000 back.
My CPA is worth every penny I pay him.

 

[ultrarunner]

Remember family business getting audited... had someone crunching numbers in the back office a day and a half...

Auditor found business overpaid 1,200 and decided to call it a day saying don't want to find more overpayments...

 

[tallyho8]

I have requested a transcript of my tax return showing any changes that I or the IRS made to it. Hopefully this will show me the line(s) on my tax return they changed so I will know what I am fighting. 5 to 10 day wait.

 

[fried1765]

I have requested a transcript of my tax return showing any changes that I or the IRS made to it. Hopefully this will show me the line(s) on my tax return they changed so I will know what I am fighting. 5 to 10 day wait.

If a CPA had done it, you would only respond to IRS questions through the CPA.
MUCH less likely for an an IRS auditor to play games with you!

 

[user.69169]

Maybe we need to start a pillow thread?

How about Pillow Talk?
Dat was a funny movie.

 

[dragoneggs]

Another anti-rant on shipping. Ordered a couple of propane appliance accessories today from Amazon and they are due to arrive tomorrow, Sunday! Interesting.

 

[fried1765]

I ordered a pkt. of 10 small sanding spindles from McMaster-Carr Thursday at 4PM......they were delivered by UPS Friday at 4PM.
Their warehouse is in Elmhurst, NJ, and that is 270 miles away.
I did not request, or pay for overnight shipping (a $9.94 item)