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Postal service unable to get census forms to rural Collin County residents: WFAA
Monday, Apr 05, 2010, 12:27PM CST
By Lee Ann O'Neal

If you are tired of being hounded on a seemingly daily basis to turn in your census form, a WFAA story from last night may give you a chuckle.

Turns out that folks in rural Collin County are ready to line up and be counted, but the same government that wants to count them was unable to get the form to them, the Dallas television station reports. Some residents who only use a post office box did not receive the forms.

The TV station didn't talk to anyone from the postal service on camera, but a Collin County resident explains that the way the federal government sent the forms triggered "return to sender" notations. The resident tells WFAA that first-class mail sent to a post office box holder requires a specific name to be delivered, not just a generic "Resident" on the "To" line.

Comments
postal
Monday, 04/05/2010 - 02:12PM

Maybe if the reporter had bothered to actually call the post office, he'd have been told that people with only PO Box addresses weren't supposed to get forms mailed to them in the first place- they're supposed to be visited by census takers.

Then again, if the reporter had just googled "PO Box" and "census" like I did, he could have read the dozens of news stories on the web explaining that.

Lee Ann O'Neal
Monday, 04/05/2010 - 05:50PM

Dear postal, thanks for reading, and for sharing the information you have ....

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