Of the 250,000 pieces mailed so far, 10,000 have replied yes, Mr. Smith said.
Of the checks mailed so far, almost all were for $500,000, the maximum protection provided under the SIPC law.
Stage one: E-mail far and wide.
Clarity Brings Better Results In 2008, Minnesota officials rejected 12,000 absentee ballots, about 4 percent of all such votes, for the myriad reasons that make voting by mail far less reliable than voting in person.
In neighboring Washington State, where some 40percentt of the votes in this election were by mail, far more ballots are outstanding than in Oregon -- more than 250,000 as of late today.
A. Lee Fritschler, a professor of public policy at George Mason University and a former chairman of the Postal Regulatory Commission, says our Postal Service should be viewed not as a communications medium but as a broadcasting medium, spraying identical messages, in the form of "standard" mail, far and wide.
Whether it merited the amount of bullying it attracted on Twitter and on other social media became a moot point because as soon as the attention grew and the cruel comments snowballed, the Daily Mail – far from protecting one of its writers – put the article front and centre on its website.
No one seemed to appreciate how e-mail, far from being a one-for-one replacement of printed memos or letters, would lead to a dramatic increase in the number of things the average office worker would have to read every day.
You would think that necessarily they would be on one side of the demographic spectrum, but we're finding that we're getting mail far and wide from young, firsttime investors who are hungry for anything that is technologically oriented as well as very senior, sophisticated large investors.
Checks for about $30 million have been mailed out so far to individual victims of Bernard L. Madoff's multibillion-dollar Ponzi scheme, the court-appointed trustee handling the case said at a news conference on Thursday.
The link was e-mailed far and wide.
