12/87Number of direct-mail solicitations sent to Henry David Thoreau at Walden Pond this year: 90
1/90Average increase, since 1980, in the amount of junk mail an American receives each year, in pounds: 17
2/90Estimated number of valentines mailed to Elvis Presley at Graceland last year: 100
10/91Portion of the fan mail received by actors on The Young and the Restless that is addressed to their character: 1/3
1/93Number of trees used to produce the mail-order catalogues sent to U.S. households each year: 14,000,000
11/94Pieces of undelivered mail found in the trunk of a car belonging to a Chicago postman last spring: 3,000
11/94Rank of November among months in which Americans receive the largest number of fund-raising appeals in the mail: 1
2/94Price of an “authentic, preworn” plaid flannel shirt by mail order from Blowhole Productions of Seattle: $20
6/94Change, since 1987, in the number of pieces of business mail delivered by the U.S. Postal Service: -10,000,000
10/95Number of mail-order catalogues distributed worldwide last year by the L.A. County Coroner’s gift shop: 10,000
10/96Chance that a supporter of Ross Perot’s Reform Party cast a ballot in its mail-in primary last July: 1 in 20
8/98Number of credit-card solicitations mailed to Americans last year: 3,000,000,000
5/99Rank of Bob Dole’s 1996 e-mail list of supporters, among the largest campaign e-mail lists ever created: 1
2/01Minimum number of limo rides illegally charged to the U.S. Postal Service by nine of its executives since June 1996: 520
4/05Price a California company charges for a chain-mail condom: $75