Oops! Tax ID on Mailing Label

Submitted by bizgrrl on Sat, 2006/12/30 - 8:58am.

Wisconsin's revenue agency said Friday that it sent as many as 170,000 forms to taxpayers with mailing labels mistakenly printed with their Social Security numbers.

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The misprinted labels, blamed on a computer error while they were being prepared,...

Wellll, a computer accidentally had mind enough (I, Robot) to generate an incorrect label. Inherent in our current society is to not accept blame. I, in the technology industry, as many others do not like it when a mistake is made and work hard to come up with an explanation not having to say oops. But to say a computer made the label wrong, I don't think so.



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