"I have efiled with them before when they did accept online instead of mailing it.. They must have stopped accepting.. It was accepted and I got my return within a week.."
@grummsports You are confused about what you did with that past return. It could not have been a Form 1040X that you e-filed and got a refund for within a week. Perhaps you are incorrectly using the term "amended" for a return that you had not filed yet, and simply made corrections to before e-filing. "Amending" is a special process that you only use to make corrections to a return that has already been fully processed and needs a mistake fixed. Amended returns have to be mailed, and it takes 3-4 months for the IRS to process them. And then the refund can only be in the form of a check that is mailed to you.
If you need to amend your 2018 return, make sure that first it is looking exactly like it was when it was originally filed. If you made any changes -- change it back to exactly the original. You have to work from the return exactly the way it was filed before you click on "amend" and start changing anything. AND--save the original as a pdf. If you do not do that, the original will be lost when you amend it.
If you still doubt us about the need to mail the Form 1040X, please refer to page 18 of this IRS publication.
https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/i1040x.pdf
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