Economy
NATION: The Census: Another rumour …
I went to the Post office yesterday to see if my census form was in my box.
It wasn’t.
I asked the Postmistress for a rumour.
Her rumouring reply was that just about all Census forms for Post boxes had been returned to sender due to her being unable to spend more than four hours trying to work out which box they were to go in from a street address marked to the resident …
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WEDNESDAY August 10 …
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