Royal Mail gears up for 26m-household Census delivery

[TrueBlueTerrier]

Royal Mail gears up for 26m-household Census delivery operation




Royal Mail is set to undertake one of the single biggest postings it has ever dealt with by delivering questionnaires for this year's Census to 26m households in England and Wales.

Mailing of the Polestar-printed job will start tomorrow (8 March) with delivery complete by Census Day on 27 March.


The Census pack comprises a 32pp questionnaire complete with leaflets and posted in a personalised envelope.

Paul Tolhurst, director of field operations at Royal Mail, said: "This is one of the single biggest postings Royal Mail will have dealt with and we are confident we can rise to the challenges it presents.

"Our people will be working hard over the coming weeks to deliver the 26 million Census forms."

Printing of the 30m questionnaires took Polestar 71 days while the leaflets alone took 48 days to produce. Adding in 198 days of envelope printing, the giant print run weighed in at 5,200 tonnes of paper.

Tim Smith, managing director of Polestar, said: "Even for us, the scale is a little daunting, but it is also very exciting to get down to the level of engineering detail that we have managed in order to give the reliability and quality of the product."

[bwfcmaddog]

weve been told we only have 3 days to deliver them on top of 3 lots of door to doors anyone else been told that

[TrueBlueTerrier]

weve been told we only have 3 days to deliver them on top of 3 lots of door to doors anyone else been told that

Everyone should have been told that as there was an LTB about it. However Scotland will have very few and most of theirs will probably come in next week. As for the rest of us 1 DO on here has reported getting only 2 days and 1 all week. I think 99% have 3 days

[youwot!!!!!]

it would take as long as it takes if every one did their job properly.

[RobertT]

Three days plus 6 lots of D2D's.

[POSTMAN]

"Our people will be working hard over the coming weeks to deliver the 26 million Census forms."

[Stormproof]

Most of ours in today, 3 days to complete. The boxes look quite handy for storing 'whatnots' etc in at home.

[DGP1]

The Census pack comprises a 32pp questionnaire complete with leaflets and posted in a personalised envelope.

I thought they were addressed to 'The Occupier' and that's not personalised unless my idea of personal is different for other

[pants123]

i got mine today, it says you have to complete it and send it back,,,, it'll take about 3 days to fill the thing in, and some will find it too time consuming to fill it in, might just throw it in the bin,,,, but it says its a legal requirement, will i get done if i throw it in the bin,,will i go to jail if i throw it in the bin.......

[DGP1]

i got mine today, it says you have to complete it and send it back,,,, it'll take about 3 days to fill the thing in, and some will find it too time consuming to fill it in, might just throw it in the bin,,,, but it says its a legal requirement, will i get done if i throw it in the bin,,will i go to jail if i throw it in the bin.......

You'll get a fine if you don't fill it in.

[RobertT]

You could face prosecution, a hefty fine (up to £1000) and a criminal record.
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[pants123]

thanks for that robert,,,, think i best fill it in,,, next they want to know how many do's a do a day on the toilet and what i do with my spare time......... ridiculous

[fishtank]

You could face prosecution, a hefty fine (up to £1000) and a criminal record.
http://2011.census.gov.uk/My-census/Fre ... estions#12" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Scary Robert until you realise that in 2001..6.1% didn't bother...that's approx 1,500,000 households.

In the end just 38 people were fined for not filling in their forms but this time they are promising a crackdown.

[brothermagrew]

As RobertT intimated:

There is a fine of up to £1,000 for failing to complete and return the form, but in 2001 only 38 people were prosecuted.

[Edward Hunter]

Posting them second class does not give the impression that it is that important. Be interesting to see how many people dont bother returning them. TBH didnt find them too bad, did half today leaving aside addresses that i wasnt going to. Half again tomorrow, then mop up Wednesday. Still had people in at 5 throwing them all off