My guess is that this is because my mail client doesn't load trackers, so they think I'm not opening their emails. What I can't figure out is why I'm hearing from multiple organizations all of a sudden (including one that gave me an award a couple years back!).
Did Mailchimp send out a message to their users telling them that a bad open rate hurts them? What else would trigger multiple organizations to send out messages like this? I can't remember the last time I was asked if I wanted to unsubscribe, out of the blue.