Post Office Late Hours: I'd Get My Return in Early, Anyway

"Post Offices Offer Late Hours For Tax Returns"
KOAT, Albuquerque NM (April 14, 2010)

"The Albuquerque Main Post Office and Rio Rancho Post Office will offer late collection points and retail services for last-minute tax returns.

"Postmaster Catherine Rodriguez announced local plans for the post office's Thursday, April 15 tax deadline operations. To accommodate last minute tax filers, extended retail services will be offered, and all mail put in the collection boxes at the Main Post Office (1135 Broadway Blvd. NE) and the Rio Rancho Post Office (900 Pinetree Rd .SE) before 12 midnight will receive the April 15 postmark...."

I don't know if the Post Office in the small (pop. 4,000) central Minnesota town I live in is going to do this. Happily, for me it's a sort of academic question. My wife & I got our returns in. Very recently, but we did get ours in before the 15th.

No bragging here: not after that dumb stunt I pulled, last month:

• "Lemming Tracks: Tax Time Surprise"
  (March 20, 2010)