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From: hrlaser@crash.cts.com (Harv Laser)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: AmigaWorld
Message-ID: <2532@crash.cts.com>
Date: 6 May 90 01:43:29 GMT
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In article <15503@cbnewsc.ATT.COM> dalka@cbnewsc.ATT.COM (kenneth.j.dalka) writes:
>
>I sent in a subscription card to Amigaworld around Christmas. It is now
>early May and I have yet to see a magazine. I assume they lost it and
>I figure if they don't want my money, I'm not going to force it on them.
>-- 
>
>					Ken Dalka (Bell Labs)
>					att!ihlpz!dalka
>					IH 4H-416 (312) 979-6930

Magazines are generally very quick about fulfilling subscriptions 
from those little tearout or fallout cards, IF they get the card in the
first place.  Don't make the assumption that becuase you mailed a card
that it actually reached AmigaWorld's subscription dept. If it's been
six months and you haven't seen an issue and you haven't been billed, then
assume your card never made it and just fill out and send in another one.
Check "bill me" on the card.  You might even want to spell your name
slightly differently ("Kenneth" rather than "Ken") 
or add a middle initial so you can track which card caused a subscription
to happen if the issues start showing up. (You can also track who they've
sold your name to such as catalog mailing lists this way). 

By checking "bill me" they usually will send you an issue and then start
sending invoices. If you end up getting two subscriptions and two issues

with the same cover date arrive, followed by two invoices,
then pay one, and write "CANCEL" across the other and send 'em both back. 

The US Postal Service uses a lot of automated machinery to sort and handle
the billions of pieces of mail which go through it every year... add to
that the human element, bags of mail falling down freight elevator shafts
(this gets discussed often in misc.consumers) and the fact that small 
cards get lost or eaten in the avalanche of letter mail, and it's really
fairly amazing that the system works at all!

The same thing goes for sending in software warranty/registration
cards. They stand a much better chance of arriving at their destination
if you stick 'em in an envelope first.


Harv

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