No. Once you hit the magical 50th birthday, AARP mysteriously finds you, and for a small yearly membership fee ($10 if memory holds) you can join. Then you receive both the glossy magazine and the newsletter. I find them useful and filled with information on all the grim subjects (health, insurance, scams, artificial joints, insurance, plastic grabbers) and some pleasant ones (photos of Paul Newman, sex, celebrations of various kinds, humor, elderhostel, etc.) Or you can do what my sister does and borrow my copies.