jsteiger said:That was what I was saying. I'm sure they have to pay for the postage. After all, isn't the USPS broke???pucho812 said:gotta love the fact I got a letter a week prior to getting the form to say I was getting the form. Then the day I got the form I also got a second letter saying I have not filled out the form yet. wast of postage if they get charged for that.
The shop across the biz park from me just went BK about 2 months ago. They repaired and service firetrucks. They had so many local municipalities screwing them, they had no cash flow and had to close. That is pathetic. These guys were busy all the time and our local Government basically put them out of business. Then you see a news story about all the surplus money that the local municipalities have for local road maintenance and construction. It was unreal.
Supposedly the census is using USPO barcode information to computer track who has responded, so the post card should not be sent until a suitable time after the original form was mailed, and only if a response is not found in the system. Of course if the original hasn't been delivered, it can't be responded to yet.
In any operation of this scale I'm sure there are sacks of census forms that got misdirected or delayed. Based on the budget for this the postage and printing cost is a tiny fraction. I suspect the post office could do 99.9% of this by itself, rather inexpensively, and they're not the sharpest stick in the bunch.
JR