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Yesterday I received a letter from the Census Bureau. My first reaction was that it must be a very short form this time. Wrong. It was a notice that the questionaires will be sent in about a week; please fill in the blanks and return promptly. Two mailings? To every residence in the US...every street number, every rural route number, every PO box, every apartment number, every mobile home park lot number... The postage alone must be staggering, not to mention double the office overhead, double the man/woman power, double the paper, and double the ink - among other things.
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Don't get me wrong, I understand the importance of the census. I just don't understand such free spending of the American taxpayers' money.
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"Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer."
~~Ed Cunningham
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Not only that but my Census stuff was hand delivered and now I just got a post card reminding me they hand delivered it and that they need it back. I had already sent mine back the next day.
ReplyDeleteYou know, I had just recently heard of someone having their census form hand-delivered. I wonder why? Are you military connected? (I have no name to refer to on your comment.) Please feel free to leave a name, initials or any form I can identify right on the comment block, unless of course, you want to be anon. I, too, received another mailing reminding us to send the form back and, like you, had already mailed it. And being postage paid, that is , so far, four times the postage. Wonder if it's an attempt to bail out the USPS...Ha
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