Census Bureau Sends $6.95 Plaques to WW and about 58,999 others

Look what we got recently! It's a plaque from the United States Census Bureau!

The Census Bureau tells us in an email the plaque cost $6.95 and that it sent 135 of these plaques to organizations in Portland as a token of gratitude for helping out with this past census. That works out to about $938 in Portland, not including shipping,

Wondering how that played out around the country? We did too. About 59,000 of the plaques were sent nationwide. Multiply that by their $6.95 cost and that's about $410,000 worth of gratitude, again not including shipping.

These plaques and thank-you letters were sent to organizations "that collectively provided countless donated goods and services to the 2010 Census effort," according to an email from Census Bureau spokeswoman Michelle Lowe. Lowe's email also states that some of the plaques went to organizations that helped save the census bureau $23 million by providing resources to help "test and train" census workers and to other news organizations who did nothing more than cover the census like we did.

Um, thanks.