Politics & Government
Last Chance: To Mail Your Taxes in Ames
You have until midnight April 17 to drop your tax form in the mailbox and receive the April 17 postmark.

You had a couple extra days to finish your taxes thanks the District of Columbia and the fact that April 15 falls on a Sunday this year. The IRS normally would extend the deadline to Monday.
But today is Emancipation Day, so the rest of the country gets an extra day to file its taxes as well.
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The post offices in Ames will not be open late Tuesday. They stopped doing that five years ago, but they will give the April 17 post mark to ever piece of mail left at the post offices in town up until midnight Tuesday.
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AMES, IA 50010
2231 LINCOLN WAY
AMES IA 50014
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AMES IA 50014
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