Iowa State students and Ames residents will get a break from postal officials. Ames Post Master David Massarini said last-minute filers have until midnight to get their returns to the main post office at 525 Kellogg Ave. To make sure the returns are postmarked today, they need to be placed in one of the four mail boxes around the main post office or in the boxes in the lobby. Postal officials will pick up returns in those boxes at midnight. There are two mail boxes on Sixth Street, one on Kellogg and one in the alley between Fifth and Sixth Street that can be used until midnight.
Filers can also use the self-service postage machine in the main post office's lobby.
The lobby is open 24-hours a day. For the last three days, special information lines have been set up to assist last-minute filers. Migazzi said more than 185,000 filers used the toll-free number over the past weekend. The service is available from 11 a.m. to midnight tonight. Migazzi said if taxpayers need an extension, they need to file Form 4868 by midnight tonight.