The IRS may have the solution. If you are one of 81,000 taxpayers who have not yet gotten your 1991 refund check, the IRS wants to hear from you. The Postal Service returned these refunds checks to IRS because they could not deliver them. Thousands of checks are returned each year because the names or addresses on the checks are incorrect or the taxpayers have moved and did not give IRS their new address. Avoiding the delay of an undelivered refund is easy.
Direct deposit eliminates the possibility of lost, stolen or undeliverable refund checks.
Recently, the US Postal Inspection Service warned taxpayers to beware of notices in the mail that offer to help you get your tax refund for a small fee. The IRS says that although the offers may look official, these companies can not get your refund for you. The number of undelivered refunds has remain relatively constant each year. In 1989 and 1990 there were 72,000 undelivered refunds. Therefore more taxpayers had claimed their refund before the listing became available.