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It's been a super long time since I posted anything so I'm going to send a funny note I'm sending to the Oakland Tribune.


January 23, 2009

Oakland Tribune
7677 Oakport Street #950
Oakland, CA 94612

ref: Account #0003272741

Dear Oakland Tribune,

Enclosed please find your bill for $19.99. This is the third bill you have sent me, and the funny thing is I paid it the first time on December 9th 2008 with my check number 3100. I'm also sending you back the "final bill" for $2.16. I have no idea what that is for.

Let get the facts together. One of your telemarketers called just after Thanksgiving and for some reason I agreed to try a subscription, even though the last time we tried we received perhaps half of the issues we were supposed to get, and of those half got here long after we had left for work already. Long, long ago I used to deliver the Boston Globe and it was understood that folks wanted their paper bright and early in the morning. But I digress.

The telemarketer said we would start getting the paper immediately and said I'd get a bill since I was not going to give out my number to someone who calls my house (at dinnertime). No paper showed up, but the bill did. I paid. Still no paper. I called circulation a few times. No paper. I called your business office to say that I am disgusted and want to cancel the subscription. But here we are, another bill. The funny thing is I also came home to a voicemail asking me to call your circulation desk if I have not gotten the paper. You are so funny. I still have not received even a single newspaper, almost 2 months later.

So here we are. I'm asking you in writing to cancel my subscription. I have not received a single paper so I would like to get very penny back. What's more, please remove my phone umber from your telemarketing list. I've asked that in the past but they keep calling.

Actually, I have a great idea. Your telemarketing people seem to get the working thing, unlike your delivery persons. Maybe you should get rid of your delivery people and have the telemarketing people do the deliveries!

But anyway to summarize:

1) I have not received a single paper
2) Send me a refund check
3) Never call me again

thanks


Paul