FoxTrot Classics by Bill Amend for April 02, 2014

I would hate to know to which stupid magazine Roger subscribed.

Let it expire.

How about those magazines that send you a bill, even though you don’t get the magazine. I guess some people would be foolish enough to send the money. Some kind of reverse psychology.

It really doesn’t. At work my boss is constantly getting notices via mail, fax AND phone about various subscriptions (most of which he has no interest). The mail & faxes I shred, and the calls I politely but VERY firmly say “no”.

I receive the same notices from the Red Cross and others asking for money, give once and they spend it all to get more

It’s funny (actually not) how many FINAL notices you get for the same magazine… What part of FINAL do they not understand?

THIS IS YOUR LAST URGENT AND FINAL NOTIUCE that your subscription is about to expire……………………….in 6 months.

My wife got a notice yesterday that she should renew her magazine subscription NOW and they would give her two special gifts (which they gave her when she first ordered) and it doesn’t expire until May 2016.

I just saw the very small type that says "in 10 years. So it’s his wife saying "pay attention to the fine print.

The ones I’m seeing now are more like “You haven’t yet filled out this form and sent it back to us, you need to do this NOW!”It’s normally a “loan” application, credit card app, or subscription to some mag I let expire a long time ago.They’re getting desperate.

For me I was mysteriously receiving magazines I never ordered. I was too busy with classes and never think of ordering magazines and those magazines kept coming. I finally called one of the magazines to see what was going on. They said I mailed a card to them requesting magazines and I informed them I never did and to mail proof to me which they did. Someone did print forged my name and printed better then I did I suspect someone a young female did that. I got the orders stopped on all magazines. I know you can receive magazines customer does not order but I did not want to be billed. For my daughter she ordered magazines which later I cancelled. She wants magazines she can pay for them.

My favorite is when your subscription has 10 more months on it and they start sending you those notifications that it’s ending soon. lol, what?

Then there’s the Dish Network pleas: “we want you back”. I get one of those at least once a week.

I also keep getting those notices from life insurance companies and what is ironic is the fact that I am already dead.

just do like we do….keep ignoring the “re-up” notices till the month they are due….let them waste the postage. as for the charitable bunches…yes, we quit giving cause they waste whet you send asking for more, and sell your address to like groups so you get contact mail

I subscribed to Readers’ Digest ONCE. They sent expiration notices like that at least once a month starting with the very first month. I figured the best way to avoid confusion was to decide not to renew EVER. They lost a subscriber because of this.

I recall getting spammed with some really obnoxious political letters and magazine offers, fake charities, and worse, all of them very political and/or religious (the bad kind no decent Christian wants to be confused with). One was relentless phone calls to switch to a “charity” phone service (if you define charity as “fighting the gay agenda”) and I had to get EXCEEDINGLY rude (as not even “to the point bluntness” work with them) before they stopped calling me. Not sure if it was coincidence or others my name got sold to but I even got spammed with “prayer scams” (they give you blessed handkerchiefs or something if you send in a “donation”) which at least weren’t political, just sordid (and even a little amusing). But no one else was troubled with such things, and it all went to my PO Box, not my home address.xAnd then I got my friend signed up at the same gun range I’d gotten signed up before the spam started and she got the same exact thing (I’d given my PO Box rather than home address on my membership form to the range as well which is where all the insane spam was being sent). We both talked to the manager there who both denied the range had sold our names to anyone but also couldn’t understand why anyone “who cared about the 2nd amendment would mind.” That was the beginning of the end for both our memberships there.