Document Shredding - Identity theft

[Bob_VT]

I shred everything in my home from the mail. Prior to tossing away a flyer I even shred the mailing label. I just got done paying bills and shredded the un-needed portions.<br /><br />I have to admit.... I have even shredded "special offers" from unsolicited credit cards and mailed the shredded offer back in the "no postage needed" envelope!

 

[RubberFrog]

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I shred also. I never thought to mail the shredded parts back! Ingenious!

 

[dolluper]

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Having a business I just got in the habit of shredding doc's,now the government knows nothing of me

 

[JB]

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Ya know, I am throwing away that stuff for the trash man to pick up. <br /><br />I used to burn all my trash, but the drought and burn ban has forced me to use the trash pickup.<br /><br />I think I will save it and burn it when the rain comes back. There is too little to justify a shredder in my mind.

 

[rwise]

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if someone steels my identity, they would pay me to take it back!

 

[dolluper]

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That's funny JB "a shredder in my mind" ,I have days like that too

 

[Kwas]

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I have been mailing that junk back to the sender in those prepaid envelopes for years. I didn't ask for it so they can pay to get it back.

 

[one more cast]

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I also burn all my papers.

 

[Kalian]

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I have been shredding for a few years. I have heard about mailling the shreddings back before but never bothered. Maybe I'll start now. If every one did it maybe they'd stop sending us all that crap.

 

[briannh1234]

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I shred. Just to add insult to anyone who would go through my shreddings - I empty the cat box on top of the shreds when I put them in the trash.<br /><br />If I had a woodstove I would burn it all for heat.

 

[RubberFrog]

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Doesn't anyone recycle around here?

 

[bubbakat]

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You are doing the right thing by shredding everything I do and have for years.<br /><br />I also take one companies shredded mail and send it to another.<br />That way they pay postage on competitions mail.

 

[Bob_VT]

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Robberfrog burning is recycling. It is the trash to energy concept! It produces heat.<br /><br />Bubbakat I like your idea too!

 

[heycods]

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I burn mine also thier is no trash pickup here in the country, and they fine you if your caught hauling it to town and putting it in the dumpster.<br /> As dry as it is I save it until a damp day like today and burn with a grate of 1/2" expanded metal over the barrel with a barrel lid half covering the top of the barrel to smother it a little, I also wet the ground around the burn barrel.

 

[SlowlySinking]

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I also shred almost everything and use the confetti for packing ebay items. Suggestion, if you buy a shredder gat a confetti type, the strip types aren't that hard to re-assemble if you try. Years ago a bank custodian put a box of checks in a strip shredder, about $60,000 worth. The bank hired a bunch of college kids and re-assembled almost all the checks, they lost about $6,000 that couldn't be assembled.

 

[treedancer]

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I shred in the summer .In the winter when the fireplace is going I burn.

 

[brother chris]

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JB: you can get a shredder for $20.00 now. <br />It will shred up to 5 pieces at once. <br />Save the shredded up paper and burn it in your wood stove...providing you have one, that is.<br /><br /><br />I usually shred my paper, then add water to the bag and put it out to the road, for pick-up.

 

[Tyme2fish]

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I've been mailing back shreddings and even the envelope they mailed me the junk in back to the company that sent it.<br />However, my junk mail is way down now as I called and got my name off a lot a mail listings.

 

[eeboater]

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As a mortgage company, we go through TONS of paper. So, we shred every single iddly biddly piece of paper... then its recycled!