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Anyone else rip out magazine cards?

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I always go through magazines and tear out the 'reply' postcards before they go to the coffee table or nightstand where they get read. After the recession of '08, I thought there were a few less of them, but they seem to have come streaming back. Yesterday's arrival of AARP magazine had 14- some of which were blank in one side. That magazine it the big offender here. C'mon publishers- we pay for the content, not the cards.

Now, in the overall scheme of things, there are probable larger issues- zipper merging and ketchup come to mind.

This is yet another reason to get magazine subscriptions via Kindle. No ads.

Jim Ricks
 
I do the same thing. I flip through and tear out those cards before I read the first article. I don't like them because they keep the pages from "flipping" freely.

elaine
 
Ditto to what Glyp just said about the flipping. Also, if I am reading them on a bus (commuting) those cards often drop to the floor...
 
Another one here - first thing I do because the pages just naturally turn to those cards. Hate them.
 
Let me tell you a secret. If you mail them out with none of your information on the card, the company pays postage.

If you throw the card out they don't pay the postage. My suggestion , mail the card as a sign of protest.
 
Same here as the rest of you, I rip them out so the pages will flip better. Yankee Magazine seems to have the most and at least half of them are for subscriptions to Yankee. Those irritate me more than the others. :D
 
Same here. I'm going to show this thread to DH as he thinks I'm weird for doing that. I'ts good to know I'm in great company.

Ingrid
 
Not regularly, but frequently. I then tear some into little strips and use them to bookmark articles or recipes that I rarely, if ever, return to.

I was thinking of collecting them for a year, or maybe just a month, and counting them.
 
Jerry did this too. I don't, although I remove the blowins (the loose ones) that fall all over.

My MIL was even worse. If she didn't like whoever was on the cover of the TV Guide, she'd tear off the cover! I always thought that was extreme.

Fern
 
Fern Modena said:
Jerry did this too. I don't, although I remove the blowins (the loose ones) that fall all over.

My MIL was even worse. If she didn't like whoever was on the cover of the TV Guide, she'd tear off the cover! I always thought that was extreme.

Fern
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Are they actually called "blowins"? I'm guessing that's how they're inserted?

I don't tear off covers, but I will fold back the ones with a picture of someone I really can't stand to see.
 
I have taken a few dozen blank dumped them into the mail. You are right that the addressee ends up paying the useless postage for those. If enough people did that it would certainly stop the process but the few they get now are just part of the cost of doing business.

I enjoy more using the obnoxious quantity of credit card pre-approvals from certain banks (some I already HAVE cards with!) hat show up three - four times a week. Take those postpaid envelopes & fill them to the max with other junk mail & send them off. I hope they get hit with big excess postage fees and of course no credit application. Don't know where they end up but they are off my desk.
 
timeos2 said:
I have taken a few dozen blank dumped them into the mail. You are right that the addressee ends up paying the useless postage for those. If enough people did that it would certainly stop the process but the few they get now are just part of the cost of doing business.

I enjoy more using the obnoxious quantity of credit card pre-approvals from certain banks (some I already HAVE cards with!) hat show up three - four times a week. Take those postpaid envelopes & fill them to the max with other junk mail & send them off. I hope they get hit with big excess postage fees and of course no credit application. Don't know where they end up but they are off my desk.
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I have opted out of the credit card offers.

elaine
 
By the same token, those advertising inserts keep the cost of the magazine down. Just throw them away. What if it was your business trying to attract new customers and an insert was effective? Every business is struggling to survive.
 
Patri said:
By the same token, those advertising inserts keep the cost of the magazine down. Just throw them away. What if it was your business trying to attract new customers and an insert was effective? Every business is struggling to survive.
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Geico and United Healthcare, and AARP itself have waaay too much money to spend on attempting to attract me to part with money that I have already allocated to other firms who use the money I send them for the purpose I pay them to provide. I can't help thinking how much less their services could cost if their advertising budget was zero.

Reader's Digest and Atlantic, and many others charge $1.25 a month on Kindle with no ads and no trees sacrificed, delivered the moment they are released, with no mail delay. What's not to like?

I am trying to wean myself from paper periodicals, but it's not the easiest thing. Some magazines (especially travel ones) are just too pretty to enjoy electronically. Regardless of what I told my 1st bride, Playboy just isn't the same without pictures!

Jim
 
fillde said:
Let me tell you a secret. If you mail them out with none of your information on the card, the company pays postage.

If you throw the card out they don't pay the postage. My suggestion , mail the card as a sign of protest.
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If they really tick you off, consider this: I had an aquantince you was particularly miffed at a company, whenever he would get one of their drop out cards he would tape it to a cinder block and mail it.

As far as I know the company got stuck paying first class postage on 42 pounds - a great way to help keep the USPS in the black!

If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us shall we not revenge?
William Shakespeare
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They do it for a reason...loose cards bring in about 50% more subscribers than bound in cards. So, it's not likely you'll see publisher stop using them.

Brian
 
timeos2 said:
I have taken a few dozen blank dumped them into the mail. You are right that the addressee ends up paying the useless postage for those. If enough people did that it would certainly stop the process but the few they get now are just part of the cost of doing business.

I enjoy more using the obnoxious quantity of credit card pre-approvals from certain banks (some I already HAVE cards with!) hat show up three - four times a week. Take those postpaid envelopes & fill them to the max with other junk mail & send them off. I hope they get hit with big excess postage fees and of course no credit application. Don't know where they end up but they are off my desk.
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My FIL did the exact same thing. I don't know if it works, but he got great satisfaction in believing it did. :whoopie:

Cheers!
 
I like the cards

I look at all the cards. There are some very good deals. I hope they keep putting them in the magazines. My wife and I have quite a few subscriptions. It seems to me that the prices are lower than the online prices.
 
Wherever you order them from may honor the lower prices on the cards or from other sellers.
 
I take out the cards, too. The blank ones I use to jot down my shopping list, etc.

They don't annoy me so much that I would trouble myself to mail them back. I have other things to occupy my time such as informing the tug world on the virtues of zipper merging.
 
I do too. I just chalked it up to my being a tad bit on the OCD side with that sorta stuff. I hate them!
 
When I get the magazine in the mail and bring it in the house, the first thing after I unwrap is is to shake it upside down on top of the trash can so all the cards fall out :D
 
ampaholic said:
If they really tick you off, consider this: I had an aquantince you was particularly miffed at a company, whenever he would get one of their drop out cards he would tape it to a cinder block and mail it.

As far as I know the company got stuck paying first class postage on 42 pounds - a great way to help keep the USPS in the black!
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