<p>Mamabear that’s actually a relief to hear. I texted him a “ummm, honey, why are you getting Parenting Magazine?” and he replied “I am?” and then swore up and down that he and his girlfriend aren’t expecting! I am too young to be a grandma! :D</p>
<p>He gets it monthly. I forwarded him one of the copies because he didn’t believe me!</p>
<p>Ummm…is my kid the only one who never opens his mail? I let it sit on the counter for 2 days, if he doesn’t bother to open it by then, I open it. If it is important I tell him, otherwise I just file it away. Four things sitting on the counter now.</p>
<p>mamabear1234 and Jamiecakes - What IS it with “Parenting” magazine? They sent an issue addressed to my D (age 20) at her grandparents’ address! She has never lived there, and so far as she can recall has never ordered anything to be delivered there! The only thing she’s ever sent there is hand-addressed cards. And she’s definitely NOT a parent. Totally bizarre!</p>
<p>And mamaof5 - D never opens her mail either.</p>
<p>Okay this is too weird. I am starting a thread to see how many seniors got parenting magazine. lol ridiculous!</p>
<p>maybe there’s been a spike in pregnancies this year?</p>
<p>Re: Info on all those unsolicited Parents magazine subscription</p>
<p>Okay this is really getting far afield here, but I recently got so ticked off at getting an unwanted Parents magazine that I tracked down the source of the free subscription, and managed to get it cancelled. (I think. Time will tell.) I found out that it came free (and I’m quoting from the email from a company called hordway at m2mags dot com) “as a result of making an online purchase with ProFlowers, or Berries.com, or PersonalCreatives.com . The magazine was included as a bonus offer with your purchase.” </p>
<p>So there you go. If you’ve ever ordered from any those companies (and I know I sent flower through Proflowers once) that’s when your subscription commenced. Ridiculous waste of trees, postage, and fuel for the mail carriers’ truck!!!</p>
<p>While a lot comes by email now, not everything does. This past Christmas Eve day, a large envelope arrived in the mail from a medical school my son applied to. I guessed it contained good news. Most of the family happened to be over so we were all together when he opened it. It was his first med school admission and it was fun to watch my other kids scream and jump up and down while DS stood there looking stunned. I think there is something about pulling a large envelope out of the mailbox that is more exciting than finding out by email or logging onto a site. My older kids mostly found out by snail mail. Last year it was especially trying when technical difficulties turned finding out into a big waiting game with a few reach schools for my youngest. It was very stressful. In one case, the school literally sent out an apology saying they were frantically working to get the issue resolved. It was just awful watching DS attempt a login over and over again. Another school sent the emails out hours after promised. Not fun, although we got good news in the end.</p>
<p>It was here on CC that I learned that acceptances for my now senior daughter’s school were out…so I told her to check her email and that is how it happened.
Since I was the one who picked up the mail , I also saw envelopes before they did , but they were opened by them. Still, seeing the large envelope was pretty obvious :D</p>
<p>Just a couple of months ago , an acceptance letter for grad school came to our home instead of daughter’s address. She didn’t even think her application was complete since her letters of recommendation were not all in yet . Not only was she shocked that an actual envelope came , but that it came to our address. I literally almost tossed it , but I texted her asking if she wanted me to open it.</p>
<p>Ok, I admit, I have found out all of her acceptances first. But, it’s because she is in Spain as an exchange student so she used my e-mail for all of her apps because she wasn’t sure how easy it would be for her to get on the internet before she left and gave me all of her logins, and obviously she can’t open her mail since she isn’t here. Honestly, she didn’t care that much about most of them because she was 99% sure she would get into them. Plus, she has way more excitement going on in her life in Spain to think about college too much…</p>
<p>Thinking back now, I think my oldest daughter specifically told me not to tell her if there was anything in the mail. She was afraid she would be too distracted driving home from school .</p>