Our Best Places Newsletter Returns to Mailchimp

August 5, 2025 — Topretirements will be returning to Mailchimp as the service that sends out our weekly “Best Places” newsletter. We apologize for the confusion that changing back from Substack might create. The switch back to our old newsletter style will take place with the August 7 issue.

We were hoping that Substack would provide us with a much needed source of financial support. Unfortunately, only a very small but loyal handful of readers responded to our request to consider a paid subscription ($49/year). We were getting some new subscribers out of the switch, but not enough to justify the change. Mailchimp’s platform, although it does cost us money, is superior. We will do our best to import new Substack subscribers into Mailchimp, and consider sending out special newsletters to them at Substack.

So at the moment our only source of revenue is the loyal group of advertisers who sponsor Showcase listings on our site, as welll as occasional emails to our audience.

As always, if you have suggestions on how we could improve this website and our newsletters – please tell us in the Comments section below.