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Volunteer tomorrow to help get Richmond counted!
On Saturday, Councilwoman Newbille, Robertson and the Mayor will be doing a neighborhood Blitz with the 2010 Census Personnel this Saturday and are seeking many volunteers to help in this worthy event to get Richmonders counted. Council Liaison Sam Patterson writes:
If you are free on Saturday for a couple of hours join Councilwoman Newbille at our starting point (Creighton and Nine Mile) at 12:00 Noon. We will be reminding people to mail in their forms and handing out other information. We will cover the Nine Mile Road corridor from 12:00-1:00, 25th street (1:00-2:00), 25th and Main (The Market at Tobacco Row (2:00-3:00), and Fairmount and Mosby 3:00-4:00. Clovia from 105.7, Ms. Newbille and the Mayor will join us at Sandra’s for an all out Blitz Radio Campaign from 4:30-7:00.
There will also be groups working Whotcomb, Mosby, Creighton, and Farifield in the East End, and sections of Southside and Northside. Please call Doris Jackson at (804)780-4247 for those meet-up locations and times.
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Hey, not trying to complain or take the steam out of volunteer efforts, but over the past few months I have received from the census folks:
1) A postcard telling me to expect my census form soon.
2) My census form.
3) A letter telling me that I should have received the census form.
4) A second census form.
If every household in America has received these 4 mailings, can you imagine the collosal waste of resources (paper, postage, fuel, labor, etc.) involved? Seems borderline criminal under the best of circumstances, but given the state of our economy / budget deficit – I mean, COME ON.
And if some folks are getting 2 (or more?) census forms and sending them all back, while others are not…. isn’t that going to very much skew (maybe even make useless) the results?
I’m seriously considering writing to my Representative to have this looked into. Anyone else have similar experiences – or suggestions on how best to respond?
Bullwinkle #1, I also got the same mailings. You’re supposed to ignore the second form, somewhere on it, it says to do so if you’ve already filled one out. Talked to someone last night who also got the postcard plus two forms, he filled out and returned the first form.
On the other hand, I also talked to someone who said he has no intention of filling out the form, considers it intrusive and doesn’t believe that it is confidential. This from an educated, middle-class, middle-aged male.
Listening to NPR just now, they did a segment on the census return rate among an affluent area of New York, it was only 30%. These were young, twenty and thirty-something, affluent, educated citizens, but they just didn’t care. Then NPR moved to a neighborhood of Hassidic Jews, who had an even lower rate of return and didn’t even know about the census, don’t listen to media at all. So the return rates are all over the board.
I filled out my form and sent it in, and am just ignoring all follow ups as opposed to complaining. IMHO there are too many prople out there who aren’t returning the forms, for whatever reason.