Okay, this is just ridiculous.
Yesterday, I got a postcard in the mail from, you guessed it, the U.S. Census Bureau reminding me to return the census form I got in the mail the previous week. This is in addition, of course, to the letter I got the week before last telling me that I was going to get a census form in the mail next week.
There should be a line item deduction on the 1040 for “sheer bureaucratic redundant stupidity”.