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The W-2 form, and the moving business. Some businesses stay in business for a long time, while others decide that they’re not making a profit from having their business open, so they decide to close the doors to their business, this can happen in less than 30 days in some cases, either way, you have employees that work for you, and they have deductions taken from their check, and at the end of the year, they wait like other individuals to receive their copy of their W-2 form in the mail so that they can take to their tax preparer to file their taxes before the April 15 deadline, unless you file for an extension with the I.R.S., to avoid getting penalized for being late on your taxes. If you decide to close your business, it’s the responsibility of the owner to have a good change of address on file in the event that they decide to close their business, and your employees might have a question regarding their taxes, and W-2 form, in the event that you might need to be reached. If you the owner decides to mail out the W-2 forms before the January 31 deadline, it’s important to use an updated address instead of your old address where your restaurant was located, because in the event that your mail is returned to the sender, the mail would go to the new occupant of the building instead of you, and now your former employees are caught in a dilemma with not receiving a W-2 form, and you as well because you put down the former address where your business was located, but you never submitted a change of address when you canceled your lease. If you ordered items through auto-shipment, it’s also important to change this as well, because your packages will continue to go to your former business address. The W-2 form, and the moving business. www.iwantmymail.com More than just a blog!

Tax season, and the W-2 form. This is an exciting time of the year for a lot of people, tax season, and waiting for the W-2 form to be delivered to our mailbox, P.O. Box, UPS store, Mailboxes Etc., or military base, or ship that you might be stationed around the world. The important question that needs to be addressed is have you moved during the time that you have been employed during the year? If you have moved, did you fill out a change of address properly? Did you get married during the year, and if you did, does your employer know that you have changed your name to your spouse’s name? Do you own, a home based business, and if you do, did you properly list your address to the I.R.S., for tax purposes, because they’re going to send your refund check to the address that you listed on the form when you first set up your L.L.C., when you decided to work for yourself. Some people would rather receive the paper check from the I.R.S., instead of the electronic deposit into their account, so it’s important to make sure that you list your address appropriately in the event that you might move during the calendar year. If you move three times within one year it’s your responsibility to notify your employer of any changes regarding your address, because if you don’t communicate with your employer, or any employer that you worked for during the year, then they will send your W-2 form to the last address that you notified them where you resided at. If you live at an apartment, condo, or townhouse, or any facility where an apartment number is required, you have to have this on your W-2 form to properly identify where you live, for example if you live at 29000 Sweetwater Dr. #250 Muskegon, Michigan 49440, you can’t leave out your apartment number, because if you don’t have your name inside of your mailbox, then more than likely that W-2 form that you have worked for all year, and waited on for tax season could be returned to the sender. What you write down as your address to your employer could have an effect on you receiving your W-2 form, be accurate of your address, because any discrepancies could delay you on receiving your refund. Tax season, and the W-2 form. www.iwantmymail.com More than just a blog!

Changing your name can cause problems with your mail, and packages. Sometimes foreign exchange students relocate to the U.S., and other places around the world for better opportunity, to better their lives, and also to further their educations. Two foreign exchange students from Japan, move into a new set of apartments, and they start to receive mail, the first students name is Jennifer Yao, and she decides to change her name to Jennifer You, and her roommate, whose original name is Katoe Yokohoma, decides to change her name to Kathy Young, so they move into their apartment, and start ordering packages online from various platforms, their apartment number is #220, but they forget to put their apartment number on the address form when they order items online, and they forget to notify the apartment office that they have changed their names to make their names sound more American, so the letter carrier goes to the apartment office to see if the list of names is on their list of current residents, and the apartment office states that they don’t have any residents living at their property by that name, so guess what is going to happen, the items that they paid for are going to be returned to the sender. If your apartment building has a Luxor One parcel locker in their facility, and your name is loaded into a database of the current residents, and you change your name from what the apartment office has on its current resident roster, and you include your apartment number, you could still have problems because your names don’t match up, and with online fraud being at such a high rate, your item could be returned to the sender as well, so if you plan on changing your name it could affect you on receiving both your mail, and packages. How can you fix this? Use your name that you gave your apartment office for verification when you moved in regardless of however long your name might be, it’s your unique name, and include your name inside of your mailbox, this will help your letter carrier be able to deliver your mail, and packages, as well as assist the UPS, FedEx, Amazon, DHL driver, and other delivery merchants successfully deliver your items that you have paid for online to receive at your current address. Changing your name can cause problems with your mail, and packages. www.iwantmymail.com More than just a blog!

Ordering items, and credit cards in deceased family members names. Believe it, or not, this sounds crazy, but it happens more than we would like to think. People love to shop on the internet, from the comfort of their homes on their smartphone from anywhere around the world, and you receive an offer in the mail for a new credit card, and you decide to put a credit card in the name of your deceased Mom, who has been dead now for five years, so you use your address, and the credit card company doesn’t verify that your Mom has been dead for at least 5 years, and they send out a new credit card, and so you go on an internet shopping spree, and order items, and pay the minimum monthly credit card balance, and after one year, you decide to move, and put in a change of address in your family name of Green, but you don’t put in a change of address in your Mom’s name, which is Greenwich, so guess what is going to happen? The credit card statements will continue to come to your old address, and after two years, or however long the card is good for, a new credit card is going to come to your old address in your Mom’s maiden name, unless you haven’t been paying for the previous charges, then the account will be flagged, and the charges will fall on you, because you signed your deceased Mom up as a joint card holder at the time that you responded to the credit card offer. If you have an account for them on PayPal, or Ebay where you order items in their name, it’s important to update your address details in the event that you might move, because obviously someone, who is deceased can’t update their address details when you decide to move, and this includes auto-shipping items as well, when you move it’s your responsibility to update your contact details in the event that you might move. Ordering items, and credit cards in deceased family members names. www.iwantmymail.com More than just a blog!

Ordering packages, while away on vacation. All of us who are lucky enough to go on vacation, normally take it to spend time with our family, or relatives in different destinations around the world, but that doesn’t stop us from using the internet, or our smartphone to shop from anywhere in the world, as long as we have an internet connection. The problem with shopping online is if we’re going to be gone for an extended period of time, and the package that you order is going to arrive at your home, or apartment, condo, townhome, and etc., in three days, when you’re not going to be home for another week. If you put your mail on hold through the United States Postal Service, then you’re in pretty good hands, but depending on the merchant’s shipper of the product that you buy your item from they might not know that your going to be gone for another week, and so the item is marked as leave the item if there’s no response, so the UPS, FedEx, Amazon, DHL driver, and etc., will honor the request of the merchant, and leave the item at your address, and soon you continue to order, and packages begin to stack up on your porch, and after a couple of days, there might be 10 packages stacked up on your porch, and no one is there to retrieve your packages, so guess what a porch pirate will notice that your out of town because there were five packages the day before, and today there are ten, so they will boldly park in front of your house like they know you to steal your packages. The solution to help address this problem would be to communicate with your neighbor to inform them that you’re going out of town, and to retrieve your packages until you return, have a Ring doorbell, Nest doorbell, or any other type of doorbell with a recording function to catch porch pirates, or simply wait until you know that you’re going to be home to start shopping on the internet, or using your smartphone to shop. Happy Holidays, and best to all in 2020! Ordering packages, while away on vacation. www.iwantmymail.com More than just a blog!

Pay attention to your doorbell when it comes to your packages! Why is this statement important, well because porch pirates wait on opportunities for you to not answer your doorbell so that they can steal your package, or packages that you have waited on to be delivered during the Christmas season. How do you combat porch pirates stealing your packages? Have a doorbell that works, if you have a sign around your doorbell that says, doorbell doesn’t work, please knock, then this is an opportunity for them to steal your package, because a doorbell that doesn’t work, can’t alert you to the activity that is occurring outside of your home. If you have a sign that reads, baby asleep please don’t ring the doorbell, then the porch pirate is going to respect your request not to wake up you, or your baby, so that they can walk off with your package in an awaiting car. If a delivery driver from UPS, FedEx, Amazon, DHL, or a letter carrier from the USPS offers to give you your package while your pulling up into your driveway with the exception being that the package is too big for you to put into your car, then you tell the driver to leave the package on your porch because you have some things to do inside of your house, and you wait 10 minutes to come back outside to retrieve the package then sometimes that’s all the time that a porch pirate needs to steal your package. If you see a car trailing a delivery vehicle it could be that they’re trailing the vehicle to steal you, or your neighbors package, pay attention, and stay alert. If your ring doorbell doesn’t spin, when you walk up, and doesn’t work when it is rung, this is an another opportunity that a porch pirate looks for, because if a ring doorbell can’t record, it can’t catch a porch pirate in action stealing your packages that you have worked hard to bring your family joy during the Christmas holiday season. Pay attention to your doorbell when it comes to your packages, as well as your safety! www.iwantmymail.com More than just a blog!

Watch your keyboard when ordering packages! One wrong key on the keyboard could send your package to a different block, or a different city. Today, marks 10 days before Christmas, and a lot of people will be shopping for items online, things to remember when ordering items online, if you have recently moved these are things to watch for, have you changed your address, because if you haven’t then your items that you order on a regular basis will be shipped to your former address, and if you haven’t submitted a change of address, the items will be delivered by, UPS, FedEx, DHL, USPS, Amazon, or any other delivery merchant, in most cases if you have submitted a change of address, only the USPS will have the information regarding your forwarding order, so it’s important to double check your order to make sure that your address is correct, this can also help you to avoid late charges with your credit card company, because if they don’t know that you have moved then more than likely your credit card statement will go to your old address, and if you don’t receive your bill, and you don’t have auto-pay then more than likely your credit card payment will be late, and subject to late charges, if your residential address is 3701 Jolly Rd., adding an apartment number such as #501 could cause problems, because the apartment number is a number that doesn’t exist, and your driver could mark the package as an address that doesn’t exist, unless you have went through the city to have the number established as a garage apartment, and the Postal Service knows about the existence of this number. Misspelling your name by hitting a Q, on the keyboard instead of a W can delay your package in being forwarded, because Wiley is your name, and you accidentally spelled Qiley on your keyboard without correcting the error. Watch your keyboard when ordering packages! It could save you time, and money during the holiday season. www.iwantmymail.com More than just a blog!

Special instructions with your packages can be the difference between a safe package, and a stolen package. What exactly does this mean? Well, sometimes leaving a visible note so that the delivery merchant can see can make the difference between your package getting stolen, or delivered, and not being visible from the street, in the delivery world if a thief can’t see the package, then more than likely they will not waste their time walking up to a house where they can’t see a package, unless they happen to be walking in the neighborhood when they see the FedEx, UPS, Amazon, DHL, or UPS vehicle pulling up to the sidewalk to deliver your items that you ordered, on Cyber Monday, or Black Friday. As a delivery merchant reading a note can go a long way with establishing trust between a delivery merchant, and the customer. If a customer happens to be out of town, or shopping, and they receive a notification that a package has been delivered, then they will feel more comfortable knowing that the delivery merchant left their package hidden in their bushes out of site from visibility from the street from individuals such as porch pirates, who are extremely busy during this time of the year attempting to steal packages off of your porch during the holiday season. There are factors that have to happen in order for delivery drivers to follow the instructions that you leave in plain sight for them to see such as, the employee, everyone is different so your regular UPS, FedEx, Amazon, DHL, USPS, employee might be off the day that your item is to be delivered so the replacement employee might not value what is visible on your porch, but they should so don’t be surprised, or disappointed if your package is sometimes left out in the open, the company that they work for might simply say as long as the item was delivered to the right address is all that we care about. Having a barrier, such as a patio with a door makes it so much easier to shield your packages from thieves especially if the door is open for access to delivery personnel, but if the door is locked then the driver will leave the item on the side of the steps, or wherever they feel is safe, sometimes leaving packages in bushes can get wet, or damaged if there is rain in the forecast, or other harsh weather conditions. Special instructions with your packages can be the difference between a safe package, and a stolen package. www.iwantmymail.com More than just a blog!

Updating your shopping cart address is important when you move! How important exactly is this? It can be the difference between your package going to your old address in Jersey City, New Jersey, where you previously lived two years ago, or to your current address in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The difference is if you order the item, and the item is shipped via FedEx, then chances are the item will be delivered to your old address in Jersey City, New Jersey, and you have to hope that the current resident has enough integrity to notify FedEx, that you no longer live at the residential property that you sold over two years ago, but if the package has your email address on it, then the new resident could possibly contact you via email to see what your current address is to notify you that your package was shipped to their address, but most people will not want to go through the trouble to notify you that a package was delivered to the wrong address, that’s why it’s important to thoroughly verify your shipping address, before you confirm your order, because your shipping address is like your 127.0.0.1, better known as your internet protocol address, which is connected to your credit card, your personal identity, and etc. Some couples when they first get married might live with a relative, before they close on a house, townhome, and etc., and if your parents address happens to be 7342 Sweetcherry Blvd., and you order a package online, and use the address 7942 Sweetcherry Blvd., then guess where your package will probably end up going? More than likely it will go to the address on the box unless there is no such number as 7942 Sweetcherry Blvd., and the UPS driver through communication happens to see the letter carrier, and ask them if the name Smithwood is familiar to them, and they let the driver know that they live at 7342 Sweetcherry Blvd., instead of the address that is listed on the package. Updating your shopping cart address is important when you move especially during this time of the year! Happy Holidays! www.iwantmymail.com More than just a blog!

Closing a business means that you have to handle your business with your mail, and packages! What exactly does this mean? Well, you’ve been in business for over 20 years, and you have decided to close your restaurant the Green Pear, to move on to other business ventures. One of the first things that you should do, when making the decision to close down your restaurant is to notify all vendors that you do business with to let them know that your business is closing on December 1, 2019. If your letter carrier is in the area, you need to notify them as well, and ask for a change of address for your business as well as any other business name accounts that you might have generated over the years, and if your employees are ordering items from Amazon, Ebay, Nike, or any other business, and the items are auto-shipped to your restaurant that is closing, they need to immediately log into their account, and change their address information, because if they don’t UPS, FedEx, DHL, Ammazon, and other delivery merchants could potentially still deliver the items to your restaurant that is closing on December 1, 2019, because they don’t receive change of address information like the Postal Service does, and if the information isn’t shared, then the delivery merchant simply doesn’t know, so your items that are left at a vacant location could become easily stolen because of indicators such as restaurant closed, or a real estate sign being placed outside saying that the property is up for lease, all of these indicators attract porch pirates, or thieves, who are looking for the opportunity to steal items in broad daylight, or at night. Checks sometimes come to businesses after they close, so if the Blue Pear is one of your other business names, and you didn’t submit a change for this business, then guess what, that $50,000 catering job that you did for a country club, will be returned to the sender because you never submitted a change of address for this business, it’s also important to include all individual change of address orders as well for you, and your employees. Closing a business means that you have to handle your business with your mail, and packages! www.iwantmymail.com More than just a blog!