Coupons used to be mailed out as requested (independent of the expiration of unredeemed coupons) because there was enough money in the till to cover both the old and new coupons. Now the till is empty so new requests have to wait until when (and if) outstanding coupons expire. Jim ----- Original Message ----- From: John Shutt To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Monday, January 05, 2009 9:18 PM Subject: [opendtv] Re: New DTV Coupon Applicants Heading to Waiting List According to an FCC rep who spoke at our Station last week during our soft cutoff test, IBM (the company administering the NTIA coupon program) mail out new coupons as unredeemed coupons expire. That is the only bottleneck holding up mailing out coupons. John ----- Original Message ----- From: James Albro New coupons will be mailed as funds from expired coupons become available, as only 52.5 percent of the requested coupons have been redeemed.