Got my US Census 2020 letter in mail today. Absolutely no

[sinkingfeeling]

mention of when one is supposed to respond.

[Totally Tunsie]

1. Really? My response date of April 1 appears in the

black box that you're not showing in your photo. You're just showing the edge of the box, which (in your second photo) is directly above the paragraph beginning with "The Census Bureau is using the internet…". It also contains your Census ID number.

Is your box blank?

NOTE: This mailing is merely the "invitation to respond" to the 2020 Census", not the Census itself. The actual census apparently is online, and we are directed there. What if someone doesn't have a computer or access to one? What happened to supporting the USPS with actually mailing your census?

'Nother Chump f*** up?

[sinkingfeeling]

2. Thank you. I read the front and back pages and did not see that.

[Awsi Dooger]

3. The date is there but I was shocked it was not more prominent

Buried in the center and almost blends in.

Overall I was astonished at how poorly designed that letter was. I would call it borderline incompetent. The color scheme looks like a Publishers Clearing House type of thing.

I guarantee plenty of those mailers get thrown away, with people thinking it is a preliminary notice.

[former9thward]

5. The decision to go online was made 6 years ago.

I worked for the Census on a project in 2015 and they told us then the entire census for 2020 would be online.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

6. Looks like a good recipe for under counting.

[former9thward]

7. There will be follow up visits to those that don't respond.

There are always under counts in every census. They have statistical formulas to adjust for that.

[KT2000]

4. Not to worry

I got a questionnaire on one of their surveys and also did not notice a due date. A few days later I got a followup letter that mentioned the penalties for not answering!