so for some odd reason my sister was checking the mail and they just like, burst out laughing. i asked what was up and they pulled out a big, fat Cosmopolitan magazine with MY NAME ON IT

i'm not (nor have i ever been) subscribed to cosmo

reading it was physically painful

i'm keeping it for the comedic value but now i'm worried that i, like, somehow have a subscription now OR if they just do this for free to try and tempt people to pay for a subscription. because i'm gonna throw a fit if they think i'm paying for this weird trash :'^)

QUESTION: anybody else ever find weird stuff in their mail they didn't ask for?

Fun fact: if you're in the US (I would imagine so since American magazine), you can't be charged for a subscription if you never signed up.

Chances are it was sent as a random promo and yeah, unless you're actively signed up to a subscription then it was a one-off as they can't charge you unless you're subscribed to the magazine.

YES. I HAVE A STORY.

My fiance and I closed on a home mid-April and moved in. About a week after we moved in, we got a piece of mail that was addressed to the previous homeowner. ... It was a Playboy Magazine LOL.

The guy moved out-of-state for company relocation reasons and actually moved out in January, so the house had been vacant until we moved in a few months later. But it's like?? Did you forget about this subscription oooor... We recalled seeing his name on the paperwork for the house so we're like "Yup that's him." And later we got a couple coupons to restaurants because of his upcoming birthday lol.

Learned that it was a bi-monthly subscription. We'll see if another gets mailed to us later this month xD

I do, I get Comso and such from when My siblings still lived here. Its fun to burn them... I love getting promos for products that are irrelevant. But the real fun junk was a invitation to take a survey, with a dollar in the envelope as a token of goodwill. I never realized how much I listen to radio, or how little I watch TV.

I sadly do not have any mail stories. I did get confused once because I had totally forgotten I ordered a hamster costume (this was three years ago). When I got the envelope, I said "What's this?" It was from Washington. When I opened it, I laughed.

I laughed. I would use the coupons and put the magazine in the trash.

Ahaha that's the sad part. My fiance held onto it. Not to use it or whatever; he just stored it away. The reason behind it is because he wanted it as 'proof' when he tells his friends the story lol. I was like "Can't you just tell the story but throw it out?" and he said "But you know my friends. They'll just be like 'I bet you're the one who actually has the subscription and you're putting the blame on someone else' which then I'll pull it out and show them the name on the magazine and be like HA it really isn't mine!" In the end some of the friends were like "Nooo you're kidding let me see" and he did show it as proof. Most of the time people are like "Why would he subscribe to this if he could just watch it online for free?" 😆

YA we saved the coupons just in case since they last for a little while! I mean, why not?

One time, I bought a Playboy magazine for girls. I don't know why. The ads though lol

sorry if I'm pinging you kind of late but yes i have a story! it's not just mine but rather my best friend's, who's also my roommate. we've been living together for like 3? 4?? years now???? and when we first moved in together, her boyfriend of a couple of years also moved in with us. we were youngish, 19 i think. maybe 20 tops. I'm only 23 now but i feel like I'm 90 u no

anyways so we had only been in the apartment for like 2 months and she finally had her mom over to visit, and it was like early afternoon so the mail had just come. and in the mail was this big package, just a completely plain box with only the shipping label addressed to my roommate, but no return label. and Ashley (my best friend) was like 'huh i wonder what this is i don't recall ordering anything' and her boyfriend said 'oh i just ordered something so it's probably mine let's just open it'

so we were all huddled in the small kitchen as ash is opening the box and she peers in and freezes and just says 'uh.' so naturally we all lean in and her mom reaches in and grabs a handful of what it was..... which were samples of baby formula, diapers, baby food, etc etc and on top of the stuff in the box was a little card that conveniently said something along the lines of 'congrats!' or 'i bet you expected the baby but didn't expect this!'

the tension in the air was literally instantaneous. the look on her mom's face is something that i can't do justice to with just describing. my roommates weren't pregnant or planning on having a baby any time soon, nor did they order that box. it took us like 3 weeks to convince her mom that it wasn't intentional

it's been like 4 years and we still have no idea who sent it. for WEEKS ash was like 'did you prank me??? you did this i know you did' and sometimes even now i'll be sitting in the front room and her boyfriend will be like 'i still think u did it but ok' i didn't but i wish i was the one who thought that up tbh it was GENIUS

anyways sorry for the wall of text but that was it! i hope everyone enjoyed

I keep getting Woman's Day magazines every month and I have no idea why they come or how they got my name/address. I never signed up for a subscription, although once or twice I've bought a copy in the store. There's no charges to my accounts that are showing up though, so they can keep coming!

I get W magazine in the mail from time to time. No idea what I bought at some point that triggered it, but MAN, it's an ugly mess.

last year in the late fall, i got a bubble mailer from casa grand, arizona that was meant to be delivered to a house down the street from me. it feels heavy, almost like there's a picture frame inside. i still haven't put it in the correct recipient's mailbox bc i'm forgetful, lol

I am also the recipient of several magazines that I have never subscribed to, including cosmo. I combed through my records and have never been changed, but according to the mailing labels, the subscriptions don't run out until next year. I tried to cancel, but they won't let me. I discovered its something they do to make advertisers think they have more subscribers. Joy.

For a period of time last year, my mom kept receiving random baby themed products in the mail, and it was hilarious. I am her only child and I'm 22. We have no idea why this was happening. It started with a random baby magazine, and ended with actual baby formula.

Earlier this year, we received a wedding magazine in the mail that was addressed to me. The thing is, I wasn't planning on a wedding nor wanting to get married anytime soon… :O

Yes, just at the beginning of May, actually. I was 8mo pregnant at the time, and I had forgotten one of my friends had ordered something for me and had it shipped to my house. Needless to say, getting a pregnant rubber chicken that births an egg when you squeeze it as a keychain was rather.... surprising.

I was confused for a good few days until I finally discovered(or rather, remembered) the culprit. XD

I used to get Teen Vogue, and that was last year so I was 21, clearly not a teen lol. I emailed them to make sure I wasn't paying for anything, and they said that is was a free gift with an ASOS order I had made. The thing is, the only ASOS order I have ever made had been at least a year before I started getting the magazine, so I'm pretty sure they were just confused... they occasionally had nice articles in them actually haha, and I liked a few of the pictures so I cut them out and they're included in the mood board I have on my wall now XD