WMATA's Smartrip supplier underpromises and overdelivers

After being able to promise only 30,000 commemorative Obama Inauguration Smartrip cards as of November, it appears that WMATA's transit card supplier, Giesecke and Devrient, managed to provide that many and more. According to this article, G&D has delivered over 200,000 of the cards in time for the big Inaugural weekend, ensuring that customers won't have to resort to ebay to get their piece of Smartrip (and US) history.