IRS commissioner Chuck Rettig recently stated that all 511 IRS facilities were closed due to Covid or put on reduced staffing for more than 3 months and in that time more than 10 million envelopes piled up in trucks and this will take some time to catch up in processing all this mail... patience will be needed.
The IRS has received 134 million returns so far and have processed more than 96 million refunds ... quite a task during a normal tax period let alone during a pandemic ... and they also were tasked with implementing a stimulus package distribution ... a daunting task in the best of times.
