Thank you for the VRU numbers. By the way when you get to the end of entering the combination of VRU options it dumps you into another menu of 7 options. If you select none it will eventually try to forward you to a live person.
However!, when trying to reach a live person at 8am on Monday morning the automate voice tells you there are too many calls (ie., IRS is too busy to talk to you) and it hangs up instead of giving you the option to wait for next available. This is our "friendly" IRS folks.
So here I am with a mailed return on Feb 27th (~8 wks). The "WhereMyRefund" site acts like it has no knowledge of my tax filing and I can't get a hold of anyone to get a true status: Does the IRS truly have no record of my filing, or is the tax filing still in a queue? Do I file again to be safe...well IRS says not to do that...but they will have no qualm to penalize me if, in fact, the filing never arrive or was lost by USPS or the IRS. Frustrating. Guess I will keep trying the VRU with fingers crossed.
