Where’s mine?
I have asked 10 people in my neighborhood if they have received their census forms and not one has received them. [“Census forms due: stand up, be counted,” Opinion, April 1.]
I called the help number and after several minutes dealing with an answering system, a recording said, “If you have not received your forms by April 12, call back.”
I live in a nice senior community of 72 town houses. Perhaps the Census Bureau does not want to count senior citizens or perhaps it is providing jobs for people by not sending out the forms, thus giving opportunity to government-employed census-takers. This is another example of our tax dollars at work.
— Joan McCormick, Auburn
Census help line unhelpful, if not frustrating
I did not receive a 2010 census form. I did try to contact the Census Bureau by using its toll-free number.
After giving information regarding my need for a form, the automated phone system said it needed me to say my census ID number that is on the census form and the envelope.
I did not have that number because I did not receive the form. I was supposed to state “no” at the prompt and I did so, only to have the automated system tell me it could not help me since I did not have the ID number. The call was then ended.
I do not know where else to go from here. I did my civic duty by attempting to get a form. The government’s system has failed.
— Basma O’Neill, Everett
Don’t make same-sex couples ‘pretend’ they’re married
If our country wants to count same-sex couples, it should legalize their relationships —not ask them to pretend they are married when they aren’t..
— John Medlin, Seattle