Newspaper weirdness

On Saturday morning, my Los Angeles Times hadn't shown up by the time I had to leave for work. I forgot to call and have another copy delivered, but it was okay because we get the paper at work anyway, so I read it there.

This morning, it hadn't shown up by the time I finally rolled out of bed at 9:15, so this time I called. Turns out I'd mysteriously had a vacation stop entered on my account for March 1st through the 10th. It was canceled, and I got the Sunday paper at about 10:00.

Now, here's where it gets really interesting: at one point, I was planning to be out of town from March 4th through the 11th, so I would have needed a vacation stop for those dates, and there's a certain amount of overlap with the 1st-through-10th period. The plans were, in fact, concrete enough that I bought a plane ticket.

So what I'm wondering is if the L.A. Times is trying to save on newspaper delivery expenses by using some sort of mind-reading device that automatically enters vacation stops if it thinks you're going to need them, and if this device still needs to be tweaked so it will get the dates exactly right.