A Caution

When all surveys are received, they then are given to the tabulator either by you or sent directly by the employees. However, if you are sending them in mass to the tabulator, there is one caution.

A Maryland bank collected at its main human resources office all completed employee opinion surveys from its twelve locations. It then mailed them to a tabulating firm in Minnesota. Unfortunately, they were lost in the mail.

If you must transfer completed surveys, do so by a means that ensures their arrival. The firm in the above bank story had to conduct the survey a second time. The human resources vice president later remarked, "It would have been cheaper to have them hand carried by someone on an airplane."

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