Omg!!! Obama Has Invaded My Mailbox!!!!

[Boreas]

Originally Posted by Twodogs

If anyone cares, the cost for mailing the letters to tell you you are getting a letter, and the post card to tell you you got a letter, was 85 million.

Nope! Don't care.

There are around 115 million households in the US. Assuming that the government sent out a letter to each household, it cost them 75 centavos per lettro. Not bad unless you think the census is a communist plot.

John

[Sandy G]

EVERYTHING is a Communistic Plot, if you go back far enuff...

[MikeCh]

Originally Posted by Twodogs

I liked the fact that they sent me a letter saying they would be sending me a letter in a few weeks. I wonder how many millions that cost me.

Similarly, all the towns in the mountains of Colorado (that I know of) receive their USPS mail at the PO.....delivered to PO Boxes. I received my census form hanging on my door, delivered by someone driving around my neighborhood earning $17.00/hr. + mileage. There are many thousands of square miles within the rockies. I'm tingling from head to toe that our tax dollars are being used this way rather than just dropping off bulk mailer bundles at a post office to be delivered to a post office box.

[noonereal]

I think that given it is a census it would not be prudent to send them to PO boxes.

[MikeCh]

Originally Posted by noonereal

I think that given it is a census it would not be prudent to send them to PO boxes.

Why not?

[Twodogs]

Originally Posted by MikeCh

Similarly, all the towns in the mountains of Colorado (that I know of) receive their USPS mail at the PO.....delivered to PO Boxes. I received my census form hanging on my door, delivered by someone driving around my neighborhood earning $17.00/hr. + mileage. There are many thousands of square miles within the rockies. I'm tingling from head to toe that our tax dollars are being used this way rather than just dropping off bulk mailer bundles at a post office to be delivered to a post office box.

The real shame is, I'm not even surprised. Something has to give sooner or later. I'm starting to hope it's sooner, while I'm still kicking.

[Charles]

They're paying $17 per hour & mileage for a flunkie to drive around hanging census forms on doorknobs? Is it any wonder the government is broke?

Jesus H. Christ.

Chas

[MikeCh]

Originally Posted by Charles

They're paying $17 per hour & mileage for a flunkie to drive around hanging census forms on doorknobs? Is it any wonder the government is broke?

Jesus H. Christ.

Chas

URL doesn't work: go to google and search the term census bureau jobs.....click on the Local Office Map link to see the U.S. map

I'm sorry, I mis-spoke. It's $16.75/hr in Denver. I had heard on the radio when they were recruiting that the Grand Junction offices (far west in the state and where supposedly the workers would come from to our centrally located town) were going to pay $17.00/hr. Looks like the map shows $12.50/hr instead for Grand Junction. Maybe it's a typo.

Edit: wow, check out California > San Francisco on that map @ $22.00/hr!!

[BlueStreak]

Originally Posted by Charles

They're paying $17 per hour & mileage for a flunkie to drive around hanging census forms on doorknobs? Is it any wonder the government is broke?

Jesus H. Christ.

Chas

Lighten up you cheapskate. If you saw what my employer pays my lazy ass to go around cleaning photoeyes and pumping grease, you'd shit yourself.

I love high wages and lavish benefits for working people. At least then I know it's going to the right place. Better than throwing more $$$$ at a billionaire. WTF is that? Like squirting lighter fluid at a forest fire.

Dave

[Charles]

Originally Posted by BlueStreak

Lighten up you cheapskate. If you saw what my employer pays my lazy ass to go around cleaning photoeyes and pumping grease, you'd shit yourself.

I love high wages and lavish benefits for working people. At least then I know it's going to the right place. Better than throwing more $$$$ at a billionaire. WTF is that? Like squirting lighter fluid at a forest fire.

Dave

I see that they're only paying $11.00 in Bugtussell. Looks like grounds for a lawsuit to me.

Do me a favor and tell those Eyeties you work for that I said that they need to run more Columbian. It's getting hard to find around here.

Take care,

Chas