Wes Billups
10-14-2009, 6:22 PM
I've got a question and need to vent a little bit. In June '08 my wife setup a one year subscription for a large local newspaper for delivery on Sunday only. Over the next 52 weeks we found we weren't reading it every
Sunday so we decided to not renew when we received the renewal notices in May. The paper kept getting delivered for 5 weeks beyond our original subscription. Last night I get a call from a collections agency stating I owed them $10.25 for the delivered papers. If I did not pay they would escalate this claim within their corporation.
Is this legal?
The thing about this that bothers me the most is that it was the newspaper's choice to deliver them beyond our initial contract. I called them today and they stated this is standard practice and the extra delivery's are a grace period so if I do renew late I won't miss a week. They told me I am legally obligated to pay this bill.
I've always paid my bills on time and take pride in never having a late payment on anything. This really bothers me and I was wanting to get everybody's input on this issue. Have you heard of this practice before and does the paper have a legal right to collect on papers delivered beyond a subscription period?
Thanks,
Wes Billups
Sunday so we decided to not renew when we received the renewal notices in May. The paper kept getting delivered for 5 weeks beyond our original subscription. Last night I get a call from a collections agency stating I owed them $10.25 for the delivered papers. If I did not pay they would escalate this claim within their corporation.
Is this legal?
The thing about this that bothers me the most is that it was the newspaper's choice to deliver them beyond our initial contract. I called them today and they stated this is standard practice and the extra delivery's are a grace period so if I do renew late I won't miss a week. They told me I am legally obligated to pay this bill.
I've always paid my bills on time and take pride in never having a late payment on anything. This really bothers me and I was wanting to get everybody's input on this issue. Have you heard of this practice before and does the paper have a legal right to collect on papers delivered beyond a subscription period?
Thanks,
Wes Billups