WSJ AA Mags for Miles Question
In September of 2008, I redeemed 3,300 AA miles for a 230 issues subscription to the Wall Street Journal. I started receiving the newspaper in December. My father also has an AA Advantage account and we live together at the same address. His AA miles expire in the middle of June. I figure that my current subscription is going to end in late September so even if my father redeems his at the latest possible time before they expire and it takes the same amount of time to begin the subscription as it did mine, the subscriptions would overlap. This leads to my main question. Will the company that AA Magazines for Miles contracts with know to "extend" the subscription since it's the same address or will they deliver two newspapers each day for a while until the first subscription ends? It took about 3 months for the subscription to begin last fall so I don't know if that's still the case, but if they have sped things up, we could be getting two WSJ's each morning until the first one expires. What would you all do in my situation?
I know I could take the safe route and have my father redeem 500 points for a magazine we aren't really interested in, just to extend the expiration date of the miles and then wait until the first WSJ subscription to end before using the miles to start another one, with a possible 3 month lag time before the first WSJ arrived. However, I thought I would ask here for your opinions.