Royal Mail gears up for 26m-household Census delivery

[taurus88]

What about those people who fill them in but suffer due to the lottery of sticking something in a postbox? It might not turn up until the next census.

[POSTMAN]

It might not turn up until the next census.

[darren d]

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

We got told today we have 2 weeks at our DO

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."

[steven100]

Royal mail move into entertainment "Lost at census". - Horror movie - rating 18.

[madmax2545]

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

yes we at wrexham delivery office in north wales were told 3 days and no extra payment for delivering them yet we were paid for delivering polling cards and these census forms are 6 times bigger and 30 times heavier. max

[Lounge Lizard]

What about those people who fill them in but suffer due to the lottery of sticking something in a postbox? It might not turn up until the next census.

There won't be a next census.

[fishtank]

What about those people who fill them in but suffer due to the lottery of sticking something in a postbox? It might not turn up until the next census.

There won't be a next census.

Do you think that's why they are doing this one?
Maybe it's the final role call before that really crap movie happens.

[clashcityrocker]

Hardly seems worthwhile doing this one....

April wrote:

Have you seen the latest group of nutters wandering around warning people that the end of the world is 21st May 2011?

[hulcottflyer66]

Three days plus 6 lots of D2D's.

It's all part of the work load R.T book extended or cut off easy!

[chris m]

thats funny deliverly starts tomorrow march 8 we finnished all ours today

[fishtank]

thats funny deliverly starts tomorrow march 8 we finnished all ours today

It is currently Tue Mar 08, 2011 8:40,pm

[Bongos]

Never mind this only happens every 10 years
Goodness i am on Holiday this week
Damm mybe i will get the council tax bills next week
10 years will Royal Mail exsist then
I will be well retired when that come round

Must go having a day out with my Lovely wife

[Stormproof]

Damm mybe i will get the council tax bills next week

Bloody hell I had forgotten about them......thanks for that
Finished all my Census stuff today and all the water bills that came in this morning

[Bongos]

Damm mybe i will get the council tax bills next week

Bloody hell I had forgotten about them......thanks for that
Finished all my Census stuff today and all the water bills that came in this morning

Council Tax bills only Once a year
After Water Bills Sewage Bills

It just goes on and on goodness it seems to come round quick (And no pay rise this year just Pain in the legs or arse whatever)

I want to win the Lotto tonight

DON'T FORGET THE MAIL IS DROPPING OFF

[Bongos]

I want to win the Lotto tonight

Poo i didn't win the Lotto