Are you referring to the return status you see at the Tax Home when you log into your account?
Did you choose to file your return by printing and mailing?
A status of "ready to mail" means it wasn't efiled, and that TurboTax thinks you were going to print it and file by mail.
Normally efiling is best. Was there some reason you couldn't efile? Or did you fail to continue on to complete the efile?
If you chose to file by mail, did YOU actually print, sign, date, and mail it to the IRS? TurboTax does not mail it for you. If you DID physically mail it, then that status of "ready to mail" will not change. It will continue to say "ready to mail", since TurboTax has no way of knowing if you actually dropped it in a mailbox or not.
So if it says "ready to mail", and you did NOT physically mail it, then it has not been filed. If that's your situation, and if you want to try to efile, we can tell you how to open the return back up and change the filing method to efile.
