The U.S. Census

[Lady's Human]

The Census mailed notices to all addresses they had in their database. It all depends on how old their database is whether your address was even in it at all.

Being that thousands of new addresses are added to the US database monthly, it becomes a bear to manage.

The Office of the Census is having huge issues with their database software, and I sincerely doubt the issue lies with the US Post office (Much as I despise USPS management).

[Scooter's Mom]

My dad is working as a census taker. It IS a pain for them not to have laptops, and to have to use forms and pencils, etc. I don't know why the govt. didn't provide the workers with laptops. Oh wait, I do know... they didn't want to go further in debt.

I'm sorry it's a pain for you to have been surveyed twice. I am, however, thankful that my dad is able to do the census work because he's been looking for employment for TWO YEARS and this is the only thing he was able to get. Thank GOD for small favors.

[Lady's Human]

The reason they have to use forms and pencils is that they are required to retain hardcopies of the forms.

Electronic files can be manipulated without a trace.

The same cannot be said of a harcopy form, editing and changes are easy to spot.

[smokey the elder]

This is a similar reason why my company uses paper notebooks; attempts at editing are plain.