Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said he wants the U.S. Postal Service to help conduct the next U.S. Census.
He said it would be a cost-saving “genius move” because postal carriers already reach households daily.
Lutnick told Breitbart News that using postal workers could avoid the traditional buildup of a large temporary census field force.
“The job of the census is to go to everybody’s house, and count everybody, 340,000,000 people,” he said.
“So, the census, we’d hire 500,000 people, we’d train them, rent them cars, give them gas, and they’d go out and try to find people.
Which department of the United States of America already has 500,000 people, already has cars, and goes to everybody’s house every day? Oh, the post office!”
“So, here’s the genius move — we are hiring the post office to do the census.”
“I don’t have to hire 500,000 people, I don’t have to teach them where everybody lives,” Lutnick added.
Lutnick said his department has funding to pay for the approach and said they would be “doing a test on April 1” of 500,000 people.
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