Regards....

Last month I wondered how MotorBoating found its way to my mail forwarding service. Georgs and Susan checked and it wasn't Passage Maker or Power Cruising. This month I also got Power and Motor Yacht along with MotorBoating. I called Power and Motor Yacht's subscription department and thanked them for sending me the free magazine, but since I had to have all my mail forwarded to me, sometimes in exotic places, my paying $20 to get a free magazine was a decision I'd like to make. The lady was very nice, understood my problem, and said she would cancel the free subscription immediately. My next call was to MotorBoating. We had the same discussion, but the lady said my "subscription" originated from an "agency order". I asked what that was and she said it might have come from something I ordered on the internet. She said she would look up who the "agency" was and get back to me. She said the agency was DC Graphics, "Sherry Magazine Service", but they didn't have a phone number. I reiterated, I simply wanted the unsolicited subscription to stop. She said she couldn't stop the subscription, even though it was their magazine, but she could suspend it indefinitely. She then gave me the address of DC Graphics which was at 1016 Shadowstone Drive, Lancaster, PA., 17603. My feeling is it's likely to take some amount of effort to keep your cruising mailbox clean. In the old days one could take unsolicited junk mail, wrap it around a brick, and send it to the governor of Connecticut "postage due". I guess I'm really becoming a conformist in my old age... Regards.... Phil Rosch Old Harbor Consulting M/V Curmudgeon MT-44TC Currently moored in Vero Beach, FL