Brief by Central Staff
Census – April 2000 – Colorado Central Magazine
Search Teller Street in Salida as much as you want, and you won’t find this address, even though it was on official U.S. Census matter, and you’d think that they of all people would know what addresses were valid.
One of our spies, one of those agents of the world’s only superpower who delivers Colorado Central to your door or post-office box every month, says that a couple of months ago, there was a meeting for postal workers.
“They told us to be extra super careful in handling census stuff, because it’s so important to get an accurate count,” he said. “And then the Census Bureau screwed up the addresses — they put an extra ‘1’ or ‘3’ in front of every house number.”
Nor was this problem confined to Salida; we heard about similar addressing errors from all over the state.
Now, if only the IRS would be so obliging as to put some extra digits in front of the amount on refund checks…
