# I was chosen as a Nielsen Family **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [June 15, 2001, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-was-chosen-as-a-nielsen-family/68870 "2001-06-15T00:43:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![SuperNelson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7feea3/32.png) [@SuperNelson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuperNelson)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2001, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-was-chosen-as-a-nielsen-family/68870/21 "2001-07-20T23:22:34Z")
Another Doper (Psycat90) was a Nielsen family about a year ago, and posted about it: [We’re going to be a nielsen home](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=45073) ---
**Author:** ![DaveW](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9d8465/32.png) [@DaveW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DaveW)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2001, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-was-chosen-as-a-nielsen-family/68870/22 "2001-07-21T03:59:26Z")
stolichnaya wrote: > [@](#): > > Well first they’d have to speak to the local postal inspector, because IIRC it’s illegal to send cash in the mail. I’ve always been told it’s just a dumb idea to do so. Mail gets stolen all the time. If you send money by check, money order, or any other method than cash, there’s at least a chance that the people who try to cash the checks will be tracable. With cash, your only chance is to bust 'em when they steal the mail. ArchiveGuy wrote: > [@](#): > > It’s funny you mention this because the bills they sent us were new, crisp, and all part of the same series (though not exactly sequential, they were all even numbered and two off of the next). Hmmm… I just examined my five bills. Nothing sequential about them. They’re not even new, but they appear to have been ironed (or perhaps they were just pressed in the diary for a long time, awaiting shipment). On a side note, the movie Open Season ( [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0114047](http://us.imdb.com/Title?0114047) ) came to mind just now. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-was-chosen-as-a-nielsen-family/68870.md?page=1)