I received the same letter in my mail about a week ago. Today I came home to find a hand delivered census package hanging on my front door. Let’s see – spend $1 on postage or $10+ to have it hand delivered?

Then, since you never know what language you want to use or need to use each day, demand a receipt for your acknowledgment – in all those languages listed.

Personally, I don’t expect a form….. I expect a visit…….. They ain’t gonna exactly like me and my ‘tude.

today also. Glad to know they needed to send me a letter to say I am gettign a letter in a week. I might have missed it or something.

They have been running an advertisement in my area stating that they will not know how many students will be in school and how many supplies they will need if they do not fill out the census.
Why do we need a local school board??

The bastards!

I’ve heard a lot of different things from my neighbors that has left me wondering if I even want to fill out the census.

How is this information used? I don’t want to end up in some government database I don’t need to be in.

I am a gun owner and a few of my firearms are not registered in my name (one was a gift the other I bought from a neighbor). Will this info get me in trouble on the census?

I have donated to political groups that are (gasp) right-wing. To what extent is Obama going to use this info to claim I’m some “right-wing terrorist”?

Altogether, I just don’t have a warm and fuzzy feeling about filling out this form. This is a prime example of big government.

I got a letter before we got those checks stating that the checks were coming. I wonder what research told them that someone would pay attention to a little letter from the government more than a big package or an envelope that looks like it contains a check….

When I worked in Corporate America, there was yet another [sigh] government push on to save the planet, the one designed to cut down on wasted paper. It was titled, if I recall correctly, the Paperwork Reduction Act.

I still have, saved somewhere, an example of the governmental brain trust running that program. It is a one page purchase order for $30 in spare parts, stapled to a 4 page letter explaining the workings of the Paperwork Reduction Act,

The amazing thing to me was that the people mandating that 4 page purchase order addendum (which came with every order for a period of months) saw nothing wrong with the procedure.

I got 2 of the exact same letters, both with the same address. I wonder if I’ll get 2 census forms too!

anyone misunderstood their unintelligible superbowl day expensive ad buy.

I’m sure Obama will send out a tweet, to his followers, about the Census forms. He had to use the USPS to connect to the other 52-53% of those that have tuned him out.

to inform you that I will be hand delivering a package containing information about the email that I was going to send you. You will receive this package within 10-14 days. Thank you.

I got that letter yesterday, too.

I bet I get 2 or 3 letters after they send the form, telling me they sent me the census form and asking me to be sure and fill it out correctly (unless I’m an Acorn member, then I’ll be told to add 5 to the number of people living here).

and also laughed when I saw all of the different languages at the bottom. I looked at my husband and said, “Russian?? No German? What about Braille? What about the illiterate gobs of zero liability voters who can’t read OR write?” Oh that’s right…they’ll send someone to their house to fill out their forms for them *wink, wink*. I’m sure all of those organizations working with the White House are completely ethical and honest.

Thank goodness they sent that letter though. Otherwise, the census might actually show up unexpected or something. Gosh, what would’ve happened? Just another shining example of government waste and inefficiency.

Oh, and by the way, I will only be answering the census per what the U.S. Constitution says about it.

Kinda fits in with O’care push it seems.

Anything from Article 1, Section 2 of the Constitution. It does not mention the true reason for the census, just the goodies you might get. Shameful.

I have a ton of those high rises with thousands of people living in them.
I remember back in 2008, there were reports of employees assisting these folks with early voting—-only for Obama.

There were some stories out there on people complaining. Perhaps county RNC/GOP folks should jump in to assist?

If you have relatives/friends in those, then make sure they are assisted.

I received my letter from the Census Bureau stating I will be getting my 2010 census form in a few days – and that was weeks ago.

If I had the time, I would have been calling them several times daily since then asking where my 2010 census form is, as they did to me when I did not fill out and return the CSA census in October.

But, unlike the census collectors, I have an actual job and put in very long hours making sure we can keep the roof over our heads.

I’m a programmer for a government agency and we have a web app where a student or parent can go online to check the status of their Student Loans. They type in some basic data and the app spits out a few numbers on a printable form. Right now we are working on an addition to the program that will send a letter to each person who used the application informing them they have used it.

The cost estimate is $60 million a year. We had one such app that due to human error printed about 150,000 letters to the same person.
Fortunately it was caught before the letters were sent out.

I received a form that I filled out last month and sent back already? On top of that, the CB claimed that was the second form they sent me and if I didn’t fill it out, there would be a knock on my door?

Go figure. Cheers, Frank

In, “O’ Brother Where Art Thou”, one of my favorite scenes is where the young boy, while holding the three strangers at rifle point, exclaims *proudly*:
“I nicked the census man!”

I plan to use my letter and envelope for kindling to start my campfire this weekend.

Nice little bit of video from a show called futurama:

http://www.comedycentral.com/videos/index.jhtml?title=bureaucrats-joy&videoId=156353

about the letter about the letter about another letter that’s about the final letter?
Oh no, I’ve fallen into an infinite regress!

I never got the “letter telling me that they’re going to send me a letter,” so I guess they did save some stamp money with me. A Census worker managed to find her way to the back of my property, drive over my newly installed septic tank and drain field, and then knocked on the door. I asked if it was normal for Census workers to come in from the rear of homes – driving over septic systems in the process – instead of using the front driveway…she said she was sorry and didn’t know. I took her name and office number…she gave me the Census form for a neighbor, and left. A few minutes later, I see her driving down the road in front of my house and stop at my neighbor’s mailbox. I went out and told her that she had given me that neighbor’s Census forms, and she then wrote me up a new form. Later that day, I called her office number and got some recording from a realtor’s office. Long story after that, but basically – several days later – I get a call from two Census women (one was an obnoxious realtor) trying to find my place, so they could take pictures and do a report on my septic system…

The decennial census is one of the few government functions enumerated in the Constitution (Article 1, Section 2)

The actual Enumeration shall be made within three Years after the first Meeting of the Congress of the United States, and within every subsequent Term of ten Years, in such Manner as they shall by Law direct.

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Sending a “look for it” letter in advance of the actual communication is easy to make fun of. Until you consider the fact that 1) it increases your initial response rate, which 2) drives down costs because you don’t have to send out actual human enumerators to collect the data.

The census is important. No only is the size of your congressional district determined by it but it lets your state and county decide where to build roads, schools, hospitals, etc. Retail businesses select locations based on it.

Feel free to make fun of it, I think their TV ads are simply the worst examples of the ad makers art I’ve ever seen, but cooperate with it.

busy, all four thousand five hundred of them, making an average $80k a year, and all struggling to stay awake at their $1,000 desks.

Not only did I get that letter, but thought the exact same thing. They sent me a letter telling me I would be getting a letter.
I believe I heard that the Census Bureau is expecting to contact something on the order of 120 million households in one fashion or another.
If the letter so many of us have noted we received was sent to all those households, and if we can safely assume a buck per letter in total cost to send them, 120 million bucks spent to tell us something we almost certainly already knew!
Evenly distributed across the 50 States, that’s 2.4 million that could have been given to the States for whatever.
Or even not spent at all, thus reducing by some tiny percent, but reducing none the less, the deficit.
This is just one more example of a bureaucracy bound Government that does nothing but spend, spend, spend.

Why is there no Braille translation?
Why does the Census Bureau hate blind people?
Why does Obama want to make sure blind people are under-represented?

Of our tax return to the local post office and demand a refund for the postage. We are paying for it remember.

How can they waste more money?

http://www.census.gov/schools/materials_for_schools/pre-k.html

In Dallas the pay rate for a part time census worker is . . . . $17.50 per hour.

www.2010censusjobs.gov

What great job creation! Giving the postal office some business sending a letter to notify of a letter. Hiring thousands to carry letters by hand. What great sustainable employment by the government!