The Postal Service already has employees going to nearly every home in America. Representative Jason Chaffetz says it makes sense to have those employees help with the 2010 census, instead of outside organizations.
The Census Bureau planned to hire more than 750,000 people to help with the once a decade count. Chaffetz says he'll introduce legislation to use the 760,000 employees of the United States Post Office to help with the tally. The plan is to create a "postal holiday" on April 1, 2010, which would give postal employees the day off from mail delivery to let them conduct the count.
http://www.utahpolicy.com/featured_article/representative-chaffetz-wants-post-office-facilitate-2010-census
This makes way too much sense so the idiots in charge will probably find some political excuse to torpedo it. The post office could use the money and the workers are already going to just about every household in America already. Seems like a win-win to me.
What do you think? Good idea? Bad idea? Why?
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I say let the Jehovah's Witnesses do it.
Oh yeah, I never answer the door for them.
I guess it's not a bad idea but the post office workers already have jobs and it things keep up the way they are some people are going to need a job, even if it's a temp job. Plus it's going to take longer than one postal holiday to do the census. Most people who have jobs are at work when the mail carriers are out delivering stuff.
If the post office does it, it will be as bad as the mail service is now. USPS is run by a private concern now and as inneficent as could be. The profits are there but the service sucks.
There is only one problem. What about all those people who use post office boxes? Not everyone gets home delivery of their mail.
LOL, the USPS is so slow though that it might take 2 years to get done.
Hiring ACORN or whatever they call themselves today though gives out more patronage, that is the goal--not efficiency.
Well thanks for the comments.