US Airways Dividend Miles

Someone explain this to me:

Donna received in the mail yesterday a letter that stated, “A review of our records indicates that you have unused miles in your Dividend Miles account.” To redeem her 2,454 unused miles she could select from the below list of magazines and take as many as she wanted until she ran out of miles.

This has happened about 3 or 4 times in the last decade, even thought we haven’t flown on US Airways for 20 years and even when we did we were never in their frequent flier program.

Anyway, we have done the magazine picking each time and it hasn’t cost us a cent. The only angle I can think of that once subscribed the magazines are hoping that you will renew (which we have never done.)

This time we will be getting a year’s worth of Time, Giant and All You.