31.   The first checks could be mailed in about two weeks, said David Garick, an OBES spokesman.

32.   The government will begin mailing checks in July under the tax cut passed earlier by Congress.

33.   The IRS, in a statement, said affected taxpayers should mail a check and include the letter from Block that came in the overnight mailing.

34.   The location from which checks are mailed is determined by volume, he added.

35.   The IRS has said that the checks will be mailed in batches, according to the Social Security number of the recipients.

36.   The lower the numbers, the quicker the checks will be mailed, the agency said.

37.   The letter, which directed recipients to mail their checks to a Mill Valley address, listed phone numbers for Wells Fargo Bank and a law firm as contacts.

38.   There are certainly bargains here, but you have to risk mailing a check to a total stranger, and trusting him to deliver the goods.

39.   They would then mail checks to the Treasury Department instead of the IRS, and make them out to the Medicare program.

40.   Through a locked gate, a security guard told them they could have their checks mailed, or return the next morning to get them in person.