So McKinney's office received these checks on 9/11? I find that very hard to believe. Congress shut down early in the morning, so that I doubt if there was a mail delivery in McKinney's D.C. office that day. In any case, why would you have an inordinate number of checks received on what was surely at the least a severely abbreviated workday?
And remember, these were out-of-state checks. I think it's unlikely the checks would have gone to a Georgia McKinney office. Even if they did, would the post office there have delivered them before the office shut down that day?
I found it hard to believe, also. I had an appointment at a LOWLY government building on September 11th, in MONTEREY, CALIFORNIA. Not exactly a hot-spot, even on that day. THEY were closed also; everyone was closed from what I heard later.
Mrs K