Hey, you ain't just a copper...you're a 'G' man!

[madbaker]

Two Feds stopped by yesterday. They only needed earpieces to complete the cliché - they had the dark suits and sunglasses down.

See, we’ve been receiving threatening IRS notices for a previous tenant. We’ve owned this place for two years so he moved at least three years ago. At first, we dutifully sent them back Return to Sender, Address Unknown. When that didn’t halt the mailings I tried calling the IRS customer service line, but they quickly told me to send them back and hung up before I could say it hadn’t worked. Now we just throw them away.

We haven’t opened them, but he must owe them a bunch of money if it prompted an actual visit to try tracking him down! Oh, and bonus points for correctly naming the source of the header.

Comments

[rustmon.livejournal.com]

Why am I thinking the untouchables....

[madbaker.livejournal.com]

Earlier.

[strmonkey.livejournal.com]

See why I couldn't work for them anymore!! What a bunch of inefficient dorks. Even I could have done a better job locating the man and I was just an intern. It would have taken me 20 minutes to know that someone else owned the building...lame asses!!

[seamoose.livejournal.com]

Okay, I cheated and looked up the header. I've never even heard of that movie.

[goldenstag.livejournal.com]

Man, it sucks when you keep getting mail for the previous owner/tenant. I am astounded we're getting things like the guy's professional magazine subscription. It's rather odd at times.

Having the Feds appear on your doorstep has to be creepy. When I was getting my "Q" clearance years ago when I worked for the DOE, I warned my neighbors that the FBI might drop by to ask some questions. They didn't believe me and left me a mocking note. Then I got another note a few days later that was extremely apologetic ... heh. (They were college students at Berkeley, and I think having the Feds come a-knocking was a real shock!)