John / Billybob
You rock, Congressman Billybob!
We are in same situation. Received a note from postmaster yesterday to call 1-866-872-6868 AFTER April 12th and a form would be sent to our PO Box.
Just today - after the get 'em returned deadline of April 1 - did we receive our questionnaire....and we have only a street address smack in the middle of a residential neighborhood.
Oh wow. By government Post Office rules these small towns are forced to use PO boxes but the government Census does not do PO boxes.
hahahahahaha
Wow. Government efficiency.
This makes one wonder... If they aren’t sent to a PO Box, what happens to all the rural censes forms? Rual routes are ALL box numbers.
Next you should point out to them the Catch-22 of gun purchasing for those of us forced to use a PO Box. You have to show a drivers license with a street address to buy a gun. If you put down a street address when getting a drivers license and not just a PO Box, the new drivers license cannot be delivered and is returned to the DMV.
And for that matter -- Gummint has, at least on several tragic occasions, even screwed up fatally in those two endeavors, also.
Couldn’t get you yours, but to get to me, you have to drive 18 miles over a fairly memorable jeep trail, have high clearance, no fear of heights,and you can get to me in about an hour, nobody else lives out here. The census bureau guy delivered mine a couple weeks ago at 8am. Seeing two houses in the distance, occasionally used by the owner on weekends, ask if anybody lived over that way. I told him no, but there had been two guys living under an overhang in a rock formation for a couple weeks not far from there and he ask where he could leave theirs. Absolutely happened.
The little village of about 350 people in rural Northern Michigan, where my parents were born and raised, uses PO Boxes exclusively.
Of course, they are predominantly Republican and all are white.
Will the Census workers canvas that village later this year or is it not to be enumerated since most rural areas are white enclaves now that blacks and other minorities have been herded into the cities and close suburbs?
Why do I have a sneaky suspicion that the only people to be counted “officially” for the Census in this place will be the UNDOCUMENT ILLEGALS living there?? 500 more votes for Obama, wooot! >:-(
Sweet Hubby and I live in rural Northern Nevada. We use a private mail service in Carson City. Therefore, we will not be receiving a census form. I suspect that folks in our area using PO boxes or mailing services tend to be politically conservative.
They, too, have no delivery...all post office boxes.
Meanwhile, I'm now back home t’Maine...and have had TWO Census Form sent to me...as have everyone else I know here...
So, hmmm, large swaths of people get NO form and how many get two? Good way to skew the figures for gerrymandering/
The census doesn’t want to count a bunch of backwoods, redneck yahoos in the Carolinas.
Highlands is just a bunch of rich white people. Why would a socialist/maxist want to inflate numbers that would work against the sole purposes of increasing welfare rolls and gerrymandering congressional districts?
Maybe the Census Bureau doesn’t want to count rural white people. Western Maryland has several communities that have virtually disappeared from the Census Bureau’s radar screen because of this Post Office Box business. Is this something the Census Bureau has never encountered before? Or are more imbecilic sorts in charge of the census this year? Or do these ACORN types want to exclude some decidedly non-ACORN folks so they can spread things around differently?
Here in West Virginia many counties over the past decade have been involved in projects to regularize the naming of streets and roads, eliminating duplicates, and creating a consistent system of numbering so that first responders can be efficiently directed after a call to 911. The readdressing process is coordinated with the USPS. Many addresses have disappeared in this but no people disappeared; and many new addresses have been created, but no new people were created — and the Post Office knows all the new addresses of the people living right there in the same houses they have always lived in, and maybe the Census Bureau just could have had the sense to check with the Post Office Department instead of sending a whole bunch of undeliverable mail, and sending a bunch of people at big wages to try and find people who are right where they always were. But that’s your government strutting its stuff.
Why don’t these smart-ass congresscritters who hold hearings on practically anything announce hearings on the handling of the 2010 Census, which is FUBR, an acronym those of you who remember better times will recognize. The reason there will be no hearings is because a census that is FUBR is what the administration wants, because it is easy to rig and corrupt and skew. When the 2020 Census discovers a whole bunch of rural white people the 2010 Census missed then there will probably be hearings to prevent these rural white folks from existing.
Here in rural WNY, in the snow belt, lots of us do not have roadside mailboxes, mostly because they are snowplow magnets.
We haven’t received a census form either, and I suspect this is happening all over the US.
Screwups and incompetence in the Census are not important this time around. The results have already been compiled.
I’m in this same situation and so are all my neighbors. PO doesn’t deliver to our addresses. The census forms were hung on our doorknobs.
When it’s really a PITA is when we want to order something online and the shipping method used isn’t clear-if it’s the via Postal Service I need to give them my PO Box address, if it’s via FedEx or UPS I need to give them our street address.