cassiesmom
05-03-2010, 09:59 PM
Can I just rant for a minute? Census forms were mailed, but I never got one in the mail. In the lobby of my building was a box with census forms in English, Spanish and then a smaller box with several other languages (one was Russian, one had Chinese or Japanese characters and I didn't recognize the others). So I took an English language one, completed it and put it in the mail. A few days later a man came and delivered more English language forms because we were out. The box was there for a couple of weeks but it disappeared over the weekend.
I was doing supper dishes today when a census bureau representative knocked on my door. I told her I had mailed mine in, but she said that due to a US Postal Service error, my entire building was missed and she would need to collect my information again, along with everyone in the building. She had talked to the association board President who told her she is going to need speaker(s) of Polish, Serbian, Croatian in order to get everyone in our complex in their languages, and a couple of people who have already left for summer vacation homes.
Here are my rants - why do I even have to fill it out at all; wouldn't it have been cleaner for me to submit the info online? (but that was not an option) Could they not have just gotten it from my income tax filing - and loads of other people's? Now that I've sent it in AND my information was taken manually, will I be counted twice? The census bureau representative was using forms and a pencil - what a pain! I wonder why she doesn't have a laptop or one of those little computers with a wand like the FedEx and UPS drivers have. And why was my entire complex - three buildings, total 144 units - missed when the census forms were delivered? The Census Bureau and the USPS had a disconnection on that. This is the U.S. Government, but the way they're going about this feels so antiquated to me, I wonder how they will get an accurate census count.
Thank you for letting me rant,
elyse
I was doing supper dishes today when a census bureau representative knocked on my door. I told her I had mailed mine in, but she said that due to a US Postal Service error, my entire building was missed and she would need to collect my information again, along with everyone in the building. She had talked to the association board President who told her she is going to need speaker(s) of Polish, Serbian, Croatian in order to get everyone in our complex in their languages, and a couple of people who have already left for summer vacation homes.
Here are my rants - why do I even have to fill it out at all; wouldn't it have been cleaner for me to submit the info online? (but that was not an option) Could they not have just gotten it from my income tax filing - and loads of other people's? Now that I've sent it in AND my information was taken manually, will I be counted twice? The census bureau representative was using forms and a pencil - what a pain! I wonder why she doesn't have a laptop or one of those little computers with a wand like the FedEx and UPS drivers have. And why was my entire complex - three buildings, total 144 units - missed when the census forms were delivered? The Census Bureau and the USPS had a disconnection on that. This is the U.S. Government, but the way they're going about this feels so antiquated to me, I wonder how they will get an accurate census count.
Thank you for letting me rant,
elyse