If this is the return leg and at checking in for the initial outbound flight the checkbox for automatically checking in for remaining flights was selected -- this would be the standard procedure. This was a pre-existing feature of the CO.com site.

You have the option of selecting multiple ways to receive the BP.

***looks like I just repeated what Alpha Golf (and then others) posted in http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/18229054-post2297.html