Yesterday I checked my mailbox for the first time in a while (because, my car has been having mechanical issues and is at a dealership waiting parts for repairs; thank goodness for CalTrain and BART and such!).

I had 8 packages waiting for me, no big deal. I was expecting them.

What I wasn't expecting: the tax preparation paperwork mailer that I had sent to my CPA on March 10th?

Was sitting in my mailbox. Near as I can discern, one of the 1099 forms that I had included, somehow slithered its way directly in front of the "TO" address field plastic window in the mailer? So the USPS couldn't figure out where to send it, and returned it to the "FROM" address (thankfully not occluded, still a little plastic window in the mailer).

Never in a million years would I have anticipated that kind of failure mode!

I opened it up, shuffled the contents inside (hopefully that won't happen again) went to a post office and paid $3.15 again to mail it again. I also emailed my CPA to let him know what happened.

As the adage goes: "if it weren't for bad luck, I wouldn't have any luck at all!"

sigh Here's hoping everything else with tax filing goes a bit more smoothly?