I heard from some who reasonably objected that The Times was sending e-mail alerts and Twitter messages about its Pulitzer Prizes at almost the same time it was sending notices about the grim news from the marathon.
Several Michigan officials, including the university's president, Mary Sue Coleman, were sent notices of deposition Wednesday.
Last week, the more than 20,000 retired N.F.L. players and their heirs were sent notices asking them to approve, object or opt out of the settlement.
The Williston Herald reported recently that long-time residents in an older apartment complex were sent notices of dramatic rent increases, including 92-year-old Ardis Mortensen, who was told her rent would nearly triple to $2,000 a month.
They were killed in one of the clandestine euthanasia centres where the Aryan mentally ill and disabled were taken, from the institutions where they had lived, to be murdered; relatives were sent notices that they had died of natural causes.
The sales representatives, in turn, tantalized booksellers with the Holocaust tease, and several weeks ago book reviewers were sent notices that an embargoed book about the Holocaust was on the way.
Before the city discovered that the Postal Service was at fault, hundreds of city taxpayers were sent notices demanding penalties and interest for failing to make their June property tax payments on time.
In New York City, hundreds of taxpayers were sent notices demanding penalties and interest for failing to make June property tax payments on time before the city discovered what had happened.
Some 4,000 people living along Boulder Creek were sent notices warning them to move to higher ground late on Thursday, reported Boulder's Daily Camera newspaper.
Four nurses, five child development teachers and the child development administrator have been sent notices that they will not be hired for the 1991-92 school year unless the district receives additional state funding.
