Here's what I do to combat Netflix's throttling. I tend to return all 3 movies the next day after they arrive (after they're backed up of course). Then after about two months and the shipments slow down, I cancel it and order it in my wifes name using her credit card #. Then have it shipped to my work. Rinse/Repeat. This could also be done switching to blockbuster as well.

Here's what I do to combat Netflix's throttling. I tend to return all 3 movies the next day after they arrive (after they're backed up of course). Then after about two months and the shipments slow down, I cancel it and order it in my wifes name using her credit card #. Then have it shipped to my work. Rinse/Repeat. This could also be done switching to blockbuster as well.

Does anyone know if Blockbuster also does this?

I wish there was a way for a single guy with
only a PO box address to do this - because
you are sooo right - when I quit and joined a
while later, the service was good again, but
only for a month or 2.

I had same problem with Netflix I now use Blockbuster, which has a $9.99 offer if you go through this website:

http://xbox360s.freepay.com/?r=29899665

Broken TRUST is what ultimately will end Netflix. Here’s why:
I can accept that such a company might not have every disc available in every location every day. As a customer, I understand and can wait. I’ll trust they’re being straight with me and cut them slack.
However, it is disingenuous to report that a locally unavailable movie must be shipped from another location THE NEXT DAY. There is no reason it couldn’t be shipped THAT day. Combine the one day delay for shipping from the distant location, extra travel time, plus no weekend service and you’ll wait a week for your movie. This is throttling plain and simple. A cheap trick. If Netflix had good will towards you as a customer it would simply locally ship the next choice in your queue the day you originally requested it.
Once you figure out their disingenuous strategy in one part of your dealings with Netflix, you can’t TRUST any part of their operation. Netflix smoothes over its fundamentally bad relationship with its customers with cheap prices. You might classify it as an abusive co-dependent relationship.
As soon as another company or technology comes along that doesn’t treat its customers neurotically, Netflix will go out of business. When customers are handled in underhanded ways, they GET IT. They’ll bolt at the first chance.

Trouble is, Netflix still has more movies than any of my local stores (which are folding faster than Superman on laundry day) so while I do get throttled and while I do hate them for it, I'm boned. Can't find those movies anywhere else.