Coming home late last night, I drove past the US Post Office… It was after eleven o’clock at night, so I was stunned at what I saw:
A line of cars around the block, and postal employees standing outside on street corners with flashlights and giant bins for collecting mail.
Yes, on April 15th, less than an hour before the end of the annual tax filing deadline, dozens of people left their homes near midnight to frantically drop off their tax returns. And several government employees had to work late into the evening because citizens couldn’t be bothered to file their taxes during regular hours of operation.
Look, I’m a procrastinator also. But this is a BIG DEAL — filing taxes is something you have to do, every year, and you always know when the deadline is. You have all the documents you need for 2-3 months before the deadline… FILE YOUR TAXES SOONER.
I think every person who shows up after normal business hours on April 15th and tries to file their taxes should have to pay the postal employee that helps them twenty bucks. And they should have to say, “I’m sorry I wasn’t responsible enough to do this on time. I shouldn’t have waited until LITERALLY the last few hours of the final day. Thank you for enabling my irresponsibility.”
And this is coming from someone who procrastines all the time.
