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Default Duplicate Census Forms

Oren wrote:
Any one else get multiple forms mailed to your home?

I received two advanced notices on the same day that the form was
coming in the mail. Okay, I figure a waist of postage.

Then I get two exact forms in the mail. The same exact forms, not a
short one and a long one. Different bar codes on each envelope.

I spoke to the postal delivery person and she said that she asked the
same question at her office. Clues, beside the obvious?

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"Well, it doesn't happen all the time, but when it happens, it happens
constantly."


Bad programming at the big census server farm in the sky. (well, in
Jeffersonville, IN, just north of Louisville...) When you are slicing
and dicing data from multiple sources, like they did to build the
address database, you are supposed to scrub it for dupes. In your case,
the algorithm apparently did not recognize it as a dupe. Any differences
at all in the structures of the printed names, street names, addresses,
or zip suffix?

Same basic explanation as to why you sometimes get duplicate junk mail
from the same mailing house.

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aem sends...