Misaddressed (and misinformed)
The Editor’s Blog at the Reading (PA) Eagle says that a local school district “is in a pickle” because of tax bills that have gone missing. The editor’s ’significant other’, a letter carrier, tells him that the likely reason is “that the tax bills lacked a specific apartment number, just the street address … If so, the Postal Service’s policy is to return them to sender, but if there is no return postage guaranteed by the district…well, there is the dead letter bin. Of course, not many folks know about this policy.”
Of course they don’t- because as any postal employee should know, there is no such policy. Tax bills are first class mail. First class mail doesn’t require “return postage”- if a piece is undeliverable, it’s returned to sender without any additional charge.