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In article <1992Aug19.212957.8284@wam.umd.edu> kckbxr@next06pg2.wam.umd.edu (Robin Hood) writes:
>Yesterday, I received a magazine through the mail that I'm not interested  
>in.  American Family Publishers sent me a letter previously saying that  
>I'm "not obligated" to purchase it and offered me "a free opportunity" to  
>view the magazine for a certain number of days.  They said that if I'm not  
>interested, that I could simply return the magazine and that would be all.   
>No bill or nothing.  Now that I'm not interested in this magazine, how  
>should I return it.  Conveniently, their is no return address on this type  
>of magazine.  Should I just write "return to sender" on the stick-on  
>mailing address and assume that the post office will take care of it or  
>should I tape on a card (usually included within the magazine with the  
>magazine office's address on it) and write "return to sender".  Along the  
>terms of the offer, I want to return this magazine and cancel before they  
>assume that I want to "accept a membership".  

Don't use the subscription order card to cancel your subscription.
Instead, on the inside of the magazine, you'll find some fine print
giving the magazine's address, and usually something like "Postmaster:
Return undeliverable copies to:" followed by an address. Send a letter
or postcard to that address, including the label from the magazine, saying
simply "Please cancel my subscription". This is faster and more reliable
than writing "return to sender" on the magazine; the post office may simply
ignore the instructions and discard the magazine (and anyway someone at
the post office would need to look up the address to return the magazine
to).

>On a similar, yet different question:  If a company sends you a  
>subscription for a magazine/order/whatever and you didn't sign anything,  
>are you obligated to pay them?  I'm just curious.

No.

However, you should make sure that you didn't order it as part of something
else. For example, if you order cable television service, the order form
may include in small print an order for a cable television listings 
magazine.

Nigel Allen           nigel.allen@bbs.oit.unc.edu


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