PCH has awarded more than $400 million in prizes on doorsteps across the U.S. and Canada since it was founded in 1953 as a multi-magazine subscription company. Nowadays, there is a winner every 10 minutes, said Howie Guja, a five-year member of the PCH Prize Patrol Elite, which started in 1989 and only hand delivers checks greater than $10,000. About six or eight times a year, PCH awards prizes over $1 million.