Evidently Uncle Sam grunts in deadline dates. Here’s the response I received to my question regarding the census.
2010 Decennial Census Key Dates:
March 2010–Census forms are mailed or delivered to households
April 1st 2010–National Census Day. Use this day as a point of reference for sending your completed forms back in the mail
April - July 2010–Census takers visit households that did not return a form by mail
I suppose I have to give them points for efficiency. So it seems, kids, if you want to help America and create a census job, hang on to those forms so someone has to be dispatched from the hive.
Incidentally, does anyone else find it amusing they picked April Fools’ Day as their “National Census Day”?