Hello, sorry for my abrupt leaving and re-appearing. I'll explain later. During my random glancing, this topic of admiration letter caught my attention and made me want to present 2 groups of figures from behind the curtain for your consideration.
The agency I once worked for set standard on amount of admiration letters sending out and rate of responding per translator per month as a minor criterion of performance, the major one, surely, credits. A translator is expected to send out 2500-3000 per month and maintain a responding rate of 1.5%-2%. A translator under-performs if he fails to achieve that. And Chnlove has a fixed figures of 10 admiration letters per lady and 500 in all per day for our agency ( it is said these two figures vary according to different agencies) . So in all our agency could send 500 letters for 50 ladies per day.
Among that 200+ ladies our agency worked for, one, according to my memory, drafted admiration letters and chose targets herself. Among that 300+ letters she sent out, one was replied.
Translators are compelled to, ladies are frustrated in, anyways, work is to be done, by all means.