OFFICE NOTES

 

When your subscription expires, your last copy is stamped “Your Sub Expires with this Issue” on both front and back. You need not be concerned about our dropping your name until this stamp appears. Usually, but not always (depending on our supply), we send you a second notice in the form of one more issue, marked “Final Notice, etc.” But it is not advisable to delay if you wish to continue with us. If you do not renew, we drop your name from our list because we want all our subscribers to be readers. We are not in this for the money, which is just as well, nor have we any interest in a large subscription list per se. We want to be of some help to those who are willing to think and grow. We almost never hear of anyone who cannot afford to pay our modest rates, but when such instances come to our attention, we send them the paper free. If this is ever your reason for not renewing, please do not hesitate to let us know.

If perchance the expiration stamp appears before if should, it means that we have made a mistake, and please drop us a card and bawl us out. And please, when you move, send us BOTH your old and new addresses. We have you filed only by your zip code (the mark of the beast!) and not by your name, so if you send us only your new address, we have to write to you at that address and ask you where you used to live! The post office is well aware of this problem and furnishes cards free of charge for this very purpose. Just follow the directions on the label! We can also serve you better if, when you renew, you will tell us it is a renewal — that word on the check is sufficient. When you send us lists of names, which we strongly urge you to do (only 1.00 per name in clubs of 5 or more!), please distinguish the renewals from the new ones. If you have the urge to renew, go on and yield to it even if your sub has not expired, for we push your sub as far ahead as you wish. Some of our readers are paid up for five years in advance, which ought to be the limit.

We welcome more than a thousand new readers for this our Bicentennial year. Many of these were longtime subscribers to Mission Messenger.