Comments on: Free Paper Shredding Tomorrow (Saturday, April 28th)

By: Michael

Michael — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 21:12:33 +0000

You mean thanks to your in-laws who gave you a paper shredder for Christmas. That means less smoke in your home, Brad! And your shredded documents can be great fire-starter for in your pot-bellied stove!! Have lots of fun with that!!

By: karthik cmouli

karthik cmouli — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 21:38:39 +0000

I have to say that I agree with your assesment that we all face quite a threat as a result of all the Id theft that seems to be taking place everywhere. For those of you who may think that both the movies ‘the net’ and ‘the net 2′ are just works of fiction, you would be surprised as to how effective the criminals have gotten today. So we have to do all we can to protect our security, and as a result of all this enhanced security, shreding companies are resorting to various means of shredding so that our documents stay that way, shredded. Check this site out and you would be able to see some of the shredders in action,

http://www.shredexonline.com

By: Thomas

Thomas — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 17:25:00 +0000

Nice post! It’s great to see this information more readily available for consumers. I just wanted to let your readers know about the information available from Fellowes concerning identity theft protection as well:
http://www.fellowes.com/Fellowes/site/aboutus/about_releases_20.aspx

Thanks and keep posting,
Thomas

By: SmartAss

SmartAss — Sun, 29 Apr 2007 12:01:09 +0000

Thanks for the tip.

Didn’t see it until yesterday and I went through stuff and took a couple of boxes of old files.

Luckily for me, there was a truck there and I did some nice & secure house cleaning.

Bravo!

By: Matt the Rat

Matt the Rat — Sat, 28 Apr 2007 20:53:27 +0000

Thanks for the tip. I stayed up until the wee hours chunking and sorting all the crapola to be shredded. When I got to my Office Depot, not only was there no truck but nobody in the store knew anything about it.
Bravo.

By: brad

brad — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 19:53:28 +0000

James,

Here in Montréal we have people looking through trash and recycling bins every night looking for documents that can be used for identity theft. They also go through the bins at our local recycling center. And I read an article in the NYTimes recently about an epidemic of identity theft in Arizona, especially around Phoenix. I do think it’s still a problem.

Even if identity theft weren’t an issue, I just don’t want to have other people reading my private papers (bank statements, receipts, printed e-mails, etc.).

I suppose if you’re just shredding receipts you could get by with a pair of scissors, but I typically shred much more than that, and I don’t always have time to shred things every day so they pile up. I just took five archive boxes full of papers to my local shredding service; it would have taken me many hours to put that all through my little shredder at home.

By: James

James — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 19:27:00 +0000

This is an interesting posting. I do however, have a bone to pick with document destruction companies who say that you need a shredder to protect your documents.

First, idendity theft is actually on the decline. So, to be specific fishing and other types of scams, as well as straight out credit card number theft of other kinds of person-to-person scams are on a severe decline. Whats really a concern is companies who aren’t keeping an eye on their databases.

Second, why do you need a shredder? Why not just buy a pair of scissors? Its a lot cheeper from a personal finance standpoint, and it can be a fun family exercise.

Just my personal pet peeve.

Best,

James