HOW TO SUBSCRIBE
You may subscribe to thes weekly newspapers on a yearly basis. A discount
price is offered if you pay for two years at a time.
Subscriptions for The Brunswick Citizen or the Valley Citizen are available for $15.50/yr.each in Frederick Co. (&21758 Washington Co.) or $25.00/two yrs , $23.50/yr ($39.50/two yrs) in the rest of Maryland- includes Md. Tax. $15.50 in Loudoun Co. Va ($25.00/two yrs) , and $32.00/yr elsewhere ($49.00/two yrs) by Citizen Communications, Inc. Checks can be mailed to 101 W. Potomac Street, Brunswick MD 21716.You may pay by VISA or MasterCard by calling 301-834-7722 or 877-834-6500.
We offer college subscriptions for nine months; prices are based on where
subscriptions must be sent. For more information call 301-834-7722 or
877-834-6500
Near the end of your subscription period, you will receive a card reminding
you “It’s time to renew” your subscription. If we haven’t
received a renewal from you in two weeks, a second card will go out, warning:
“Time is running out” on your subscription. You should receive
the paper for two more weeks after that notice. (If you get the second
card after renewing, you’ve probably just crossed notices with us
in the mail, but feel free to call to make sure we did receive your renewal.)
GIFTS.
The Citizen makes a great gift: a weekly reminder to recipients that
you are thinking of them. If you like, we will send the recipient a card
announcing your gift.
When it comes time for a gift subscription to be renewed, the giver will
receive the renewal notices (not the receiver).
WHEN YOUR PAPER WILL ARRIVE.
Subscriptions are sent through the mail. How they travel determines when
they arrive.
- All subscribers’ papers are mailed out Wednesday before midnight
from two post offices— Brunswick (most subscriptions) and Lovettsville
(Loudoun Co., Va., subscriptions) and from the Boonsboro post office
(Boonsboro zip code only) on Thursday.
People living in the Brunswick/Knoxville and Lovettsville zip codes should receive their papers on Thursday. People in the Boonsboro zip code should get their papers on Friday.
- A mail truck picks up all the other papers in Brunswick around 5:30
am Thursday, then heads for Frederick, stopping in Jefferson to drop
off mail and pick up mail.
People living in the Jefferson zip code should also get papers on Thursday. - The remaining papers— destined for Middletown, Frederick, West
Virginia, Texas and the rest of the world— travel on to the Frederick
USPS distribution center. If all goes well, mail bags for Middletown,
Myersville and other Frederick County ‘217’ zips immediately
get put on trucks to those towns and arrive in time for the local carriers
to sort the mail and deliver the papers on Thursday.
However, things do not always go well. Lately the bags have been held over in Frederick, delaying papers until Friday and even Saturday. Please note: This is not The Citizen’s fault. All we can do is ask the USPS to try harder to make the connection between the incoming truck from Brunswick and outgoing trucks from Frederick. It helps if you complain to postal authorities, too. (If you live in Frederick County, call your local postmaster and ask him if The Citizen newspapers have arrived from Frederick this week, and if not, ask him to track them down.) - From Frederick, papers going to other counties and other states go
to regional distribution centers. The more centers must handle the mail,
the later your paper will be. It is not uncommon for people in California,
for instance, to get papers a week to ten days after we mail them out;
sometimes, distant subscribers will get two or more papers in a batch.
Again, there is nothing we can do about this: we mail the papers out, one week at a time, before midnight each Wednesday. Once we leave them at the Brunswick post office, they are in the hands of the U.S. Postal Service.