How to change address on multiple psychiatric magazines...

[TRanger]

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Currently I'm getting multiple free subscriptions to magazines such as Clinical Psychiatry News, Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, and the Psychiatric Annals among others despite being unsure how I even got on their mailing lists in the first place. Seemed I started residency and they just all began coming to my home address.

I'm finishing residency at the end of June and would like to continue getting all of these magazines if possible. So really random question but does anyone know how to change the address to all of these magazines as most of their websites are not helpful with this information. Also just wondering how I got on the list in the first place. Was it something I did when starting residency. Will they stop when I finish residency and I'll be forced to buy the magazines at full price if I choose to keep them?

Thanks

 

[OldPsychDoc]

Most of them require that you send in a card to "opt in" every year or so.

Believe me, though--they'll find you. Pharma wants that access to your mind!

 

[PistolPete]

I moved last year for fellowship, and somehow they still found me and I get the magazines you mentioned. I didn't have to do a thing, imagine that!

 

[splik]

they don't want me apparently... i've never received any of the aforementioned

 

[Shikima]

they don't want me apparently... i've never received any of the aforementioned

You're a lost cause.....

 

[MacDonaldTriad]

I have moved more than once and my journals always seem to follow me. I have never filled out the opt. in cards and they never stop coming. Our office may get about a dozen ex-resident's journals a month, but that isn't many considering the hundreds of graduates.

 

[Shikima]

I'm getting people magazine for free. Does that count?

 

[MacDonaldTriad]

I'm getting people magazine for free. Does that count?

An excellent primer for narcissism, exhibitionism, and paraphilia in general.

 

[Psychotic]

When you file a change of address with the post office, more than just being a forwarding service, nearly all commercial mailers are informed electronically of your new address, eliminating the step of individually informing companies of your new address. I say "nearly" all of them because there are exceptions - I had a devil of a time getting a major gas credit card to acknowledge an address change - but the burden of sending something to each and every vendor, magazine, and billing company is becoming a thing of the past. I still get tons of junk-ish mail from organizations (alumni groups, etc) that I wish would never follow me, but they get your new address from the post office.