Oh, that's interesting.  Coincidentally, I heard that Intuit will be happy to "securely store and forward to the IRS" returns that preparers may submit from Jan 28, ahead of Feb 12.

How very thoughtful!  But I think I'd rather securely store these returns myself and not be the guinea pig trail blazer for the first batch of e-filing.

Oh, did you also hear that there'll be no advance refund while these returns are secured stored until they actually get processed?