We received instructions by mail and completed the census online.

Same as Oco.

I wonder what happened, Oakley?

Yeah, mine came in the mail. I thought everyone got a form in the mail.

Mine came in the mail also. My friend was an enumerator this year. She called me because my neighbor hadn't responded (initially and the notes left on her door) and wanted me to proxy for her.

We received via mail. I completed it online. We were contacted by phone because one of our kids was attending college out of state and should have been counted in that state. I initially dismissed it because he was home with us during the pandemic and clearly taking up space here. But they insisted it be corrected. I believe the census could not have been more thorough with us!

Ditto, mailing, went online.

Mailing, and completed online.

We filled out the form, and I filled out my mother’s. Hers was one of the ones they called, and they were a little put out that they were unable to talk to her. And no, I couldn’t answer the questions about her. The caller wasn’t sure what to do, so after a bit of polite back-and-forth, I just apologized and hung up.

We were contacted by mail, but had already gone online to fill it out. My oldest son, at college within our state, was not contacted, but completed on line as well at our request.

We did online. For some reason they came out - saying we hadn't responded. No record of us.

I think its messed up this year.

I did it online. Don't remember if the form actually came to me, but I just simply did it on my own last April or may.

We got something in the mail. I believe both sons responded online. They were advertising for months asking people to reply, news stories. I can't imagine anyone with internet not having responded.

I also received one in the mail, but did it online.

I knew it was going on and I thought we'd get it in the mail or someone would come out. It didn't occur to me to do it online, I never heard we could. But I don't watch tv that much anymore.

I received a form in the mail but submitted the info online. The long version. Received numerous mailed reminders after I filled it out online. And then, like JJ, a canvasser came to the house and told me that we had not completed it. So, I filled out the form he gave me and sent it in.

Yep, did it online.

Yup - notification by mail and did it online. I didn’t complete it immediately and got at least one reminder by mail. I also had two census takers come to my cabin where we don’t receive mail. One to deliver the notice and one to come back since I never completed it for that address. She just had to confirm I was counted elsewhere. Hard to imagine how you could get missed Oak - maybe you had a shortage of census workers in your area to follow up.

DS who is our neighbor, got one in the mail and did it online. When I asked DH he said he thought I was going to do it. I sure didn't get one unless something looked like junk mail and I tossed it. Please bake me a cake and put a saw in it. :)

ETA: I do remember talk about shortages with census takers. Maybe that's why I didn't get a follow-up.

I hope they got mine.....I did it immediately upon receiving it by mail. It seems that I got at least 3 pieces of mail saying “watch for it...”, then at least 3 reminders afterward, but I mailed it back, as my service was so crazy back then that I even had to mail Some bills I normally pay online.

I received multiple postcards about the census which included the web address to fill it out online.

Got one in the mail, did it online.

Yes, filled it out online. I think they tried to count us twice, as we received the form at our lake condo too. I filled it out as our second home and mailed it in. Several weeks later, someone left a flier at our door there with a message to call. I called. Tried to connect with a human and of course I could not and eventually I was disconnected. Still received messages stuck in our door. I just ignored them since I tried several times to contact them and had already mailed it in.

Yes, we did ours online.

Filled it out online. Easy and fast.

Online submission. Took all of 3 minutes.

I think I got a postcard directing me to a website. Definitely filled it out online, back in February or March.

Filled it out and mailed it months ago. I also had a census taker come to the door and ask if I’d be willing to answer a few questions about the family next door as she wasn’t ever home when the census taker came by. They were innocent enough questions so I did answer them. I relayed the fact to the neighbor and she wasn’t upset with me so I guess I didn’t do anything wrong.

I'm seriously thinking it got lost in the mail or we were forgotten because I do look at return addresses before I throw anything away and I'd never throw the census form away. Besides, they contact you if there hasn't been a response.

Oh well.

I thought the multiple ads on the tv, radio, internet, and newspaper about completing the census were ridiculous overkill. And yet, here’s proof all those ads are still not enough. Amazing.

My husband spent a lengthy amount of time on the phone with a census taker a while ago. I feel like it was in the spring, b/c one of our two college kids had gotten sent home from college when they went remote. There was a lot of confusion as whether he should be counted at home or at school (he was on campus this fall, so I don’t remember but the census taker decided). My husband was then approached much later in our driveway by a census taker, but he was on his way out and told her he had already completed the census. She still had questions. Even after all that, we still continued to get mailings from the census. So to answer your question, I have no idea what happened with our information and whether it was correctly recorded or not.

Hh, I don't need an ad to take the census. We've always filled out the form given to us when they visited. Which is why I didn't give it another thought until I read yesterday they were finished.

The problem was their disorganization along w/Covid this year, which was was on the news. I just happened to be a victim. It wasn't mailed to us like DS's was.

I can see how someone would not have gone online to check into completion, had they not received notification via mail. Many of us tend to just tune out commercials, especially when they are aired repeatedly. The census is certainly not something that was high on my radar by any means, and I've had a fairly "normal" time of it during the pandemic, so it's not like my attention was diverted by disaster -- it was just devoted to the normal things in my life, and the census is not one of them. Surely there are others who fell through the cracks, and I see how that could've happened.

I did mine online, too (after getting it in the mail).

We have determined census takers here. My dad built a big shop with apartment on acreage ... had barely moved in before a lady came three times trying to track him down. His place is kind of hard to find (secluded), but she managed. I seriously don’t know how she knew where to find him! Anyway, she did his forms, and deserves a bonus for finding him. 😄

(ETA: Some of his mail was displaced during the move and things were hectic.)

Well, like you said, you could have thrown it out. I don't recall what the return address would have said. In my area, I honestly don't think we had census takers. It's not something I've had lengthy conversations about, but I don't recall a single friend mentioning being called or someone coming to their door. I kind of thought they weren't doing that unless you didn't respond? I was receiving my dad's mail too and he also got a card in the mail.

We don't take the newspaper, I rarely listen to radio and never saw any ads. Maybe they didn't make a big deal of it here LOL.

It appears you did need a reminder (or ad) that the census was taking place and that you should go online to complete it because you hadn’t received one in the mail. Despite their best efforts, they didn’t find a method to get your attention. That amazes me.

What we received in the mail was more of a postcard ad type thing, not an envelope where you would likely check the return address. I suspect it would have been easy for some to assume i was junk mail. I tend to view it as a civic duty to make sure to be counted, but since it is something that only comes around every 10 years, I think it is understandable why some overlook it or it passes them by. I suspect there was more disorganization this year, especially in areas where it may be advantageous to some to undercount people. However, that is just a suspicion of mine.

2020census.gov has all the info about what was sent out and when.

THIS might explain why you didn’t receive a letter.

The first mailing...

The date for determining whether someone should be counted at a particular residence was April 1st. If someone was living at the address on April 1st you were supposed to include them on your form, if not, not. Which I only remember because I have joint custody of my daughter and had to figure out whether I or my ex should count her. I just looked up my email to my ex, March 12, telling him I wasn't counting her and that he should.