About two months ago, Mr. B started receiving Time magazine in the mail. Not that he'd subscribed to it; no, it just started to show up in our mailbox every Saturday. In looking at the address label, it definitely is his name and the subscription is through 2009.Ok, well, whatever. I'd actually been trying to eliminate magazine creep by not renewing my subscription to More. The only ones we were getting were food and drink related.
Time isn't an awful one; you can flip through it, read what you want, toss it.
But get this one. When I went to get the mail out of the box Monday, there was a new magazine in there. For me. My name was on the address level with a subscription through September 2009.
Anyone care to guess what the magazine is? I can tell you, it is one I'd never in a million years read, even if it were the only one in a doctor's office and I had nothing else to read and an hour to wait.
BTW, it turns out that, the reason I started getting this (I called the magazine to cancel delivery) was I'd ordered something through a completely unrelated company. This company, for whatever reason, "rewarded" me by giving me a gift subscription. You'd think they would have at least sent me something I'd read!
Chances are, this is how Mr. B ended up with Time magazine (by ordering something). Still, when did this practice start? You buy something, they send you a magazine subscription (and don't bother to ask you if you want it/what you'd want?)
Weird!
Mrs. B
