Are you careful with your address?

lahalane

My parents burn all envelopes they receive when theyve opened the post instead of throwing them in the bin. Ive seen other people do it too, ripping of the address part and throwing the rest in the bin.

Could anyone explain the reasoning behind this? Do burgulars scavenge thru rubbish dumps looking for addresses of houses to rob? If so, Im due a robbery because Ive throw out stuff revealing my address and even partial numbers of my PPS no. and bank account.

Are you careful with revealing your address and should you be?

Conall Cernach

Your parents are fly tipping their rubbish.

MagicMarker

Do they only burn the envelopes? Seems kinda pointless.

mud

Just as careful as I am with my ajeans and ajumpers.

Karl Stein

This one time I carefully tore the address of the letter, put it out on the road, and burned down the house.

JustAddWater

I have a shredder. Anything with my address, I shred

yes, unfortunately there are some scrupulous folks who scavenge dump sites for info. They could easily find a phone bill or a bank statement and you'd be surprised the amount they would find

It's not your house they'll rob, it's your identity. When you think of it, they have a lot of info to start with from simple ESB bills, etc

I had my CC robbed once from the post. Not a nice experience having to defend yourself, especially to the garda, against purchases and other things you never played a part in.

Shredder was €10 BTW. A very small price to pay for some security. our hamster often gets the shredded paper as a bed He's happy, i'm happy

Tangatagamadda Chaddabinga Bonga Bungo

lahalane wrote: »

My parents burn all envelopes they receive when theyve opened the post instead of throwing them in the bin. Ive seen other people do it too, ripping of the address part and throwing the rest in the bin.

Could anyone explain the reasoning behind this? Do burgulars scavenge thru rubbish dumps looking for addresses of houses to rob? If so, Im due a robbery because Ive throw out stuff revealing my address and even partial numbers of my PPS no. and bank account.

Are you careful with revealing your address and should you be?

Your parents are in the 'Ra.

No other logical explanation for what they do.

Links234

I remember seeing some show on TV about this. Someone can use a letter, such as a bill, etc to prove to a locksmith they're you and let them into your house. Like, omg I locked myself out of my house, but here's proof of my address, can you help me?

shruikan2553

I left a bin bag outside the door once because I didn't want to spend five minutes in the rain to drop it into the bigger bins. Next morning the cleaning people searched through the bag, found a pizza box and came in to tell me it was mine so now I make sure that can't happen.

sbsquarepants

I'm semi careful - I rip up anything (anything official anyway, I wouldn't bother with the envelopes the Christmas cards came in!) with my address on it before I throw it in the bin. I haven't gotten anything on shop credit in a long time but it used to be shockingly easy to do in some places once you had something official with your address on it!

OU812

Anything with an address on or personal details, account number etc goes in a cross cut shredder.

LOSTfan57

My Adress is 742 Evergreen Terrace














D'Oh

hotbabe1992

I put a black marker over my name pps number bank number,everything basically..Someone could casually walk by your bin when you put it out on the road..

How many people pad lock their bins?Nobody i would guess so the black marker does the trick..

sweetie

shruikan2553 wrote: »

I left a bin bag outside the door once because I didn't want to spend five minutes in the rain to drop it into the bigger bins. Next morning the cleaning people searched through the bag, found a pizza box and came in to tell me it was mine so now I make sure that can't happen.

do you write your name and addresss on pizza boxes?

minotour

anything formal that goes in the bin gets ripped up, thoroughly soaked and placed back in its envelope first. If there's dregs of coffee or wine around that goes into to it also. Cheap arse version of shredding it i suppose.

If i had my way i wouldn't have any paper mail anymore, completely unnecessary and risky in this day and age.

my teapot is orange

Anything personal is shredded or burned.

simonsays1

I once found a set of house keys with the address on it!

Hellooooo

I just posted it to them- those crazies!

Birneybau

LOSTfan57 wrote: »

My Adress is 742 Evergreen Terrace

D'Oh

123 Fake Street myself. The amount of credit card bills I get is unreal!

AgileMyth

Links234 wrote: »

I remember seeing some show on TV about this. Someone can use a letter, such as a bill, etc to prove to a locksmith they're you and let them into your house. Like, omg I locked myself out of my house, but here's proof of my address, can you help me?

What sort of think fucking locksmiths have we got that believe you got locked out of your house but just happened to be carrying your phone bill?

And they don't even ask for a photo ID to prove it?

AgileMyth

simonsays1 wrote: »

I once found a set of house keys with the address on it!

Hellooooo

I just posted it to them- those crazies!

My mum once changed the locks because she lost a house key. It didn't have the address written on it or anything, she's just mental.

FunGoose

sweetie wrote: »

do you write your name and addresss on pizza boxes?

Either the cleaners ran his DNA through the database they have access to or the company he ordered the pizza from stuck the receipt (with the address on it) on the box so the delivery dude would know where exactly to deliver that particular pizza :pac:

Warper

Paranoid android

jimgoose

I never allow anything with my address on it into either the recycling or the garbage. That kind of thing is always incinerated. You can't be too careful these days - all kinds of personal information is considered commercially valuable by various undesirables.

Pherekydes

Very careful. I have a half-starved Rottweiler sitting obediently by the front door.

"Eh, are you sure this is your house? That big dog doesn't seem to recognise you."

"Em, you're right. I have a phone bill for next door. Can you open that one for me?"

Hierro_4

Not particularly, but after reading this thread I'm beginning to have second thoughts!

HansHolzel

2B Well Road, Tillit, Herts.

Tabnabs

We had someone dumping their residential rubbish in a skip we had for house renovations. I got hacked off with their cheek so I opened up the bags until I found an envelope with name and address and returned it to his front garden.

There are lots of reasons not to put your name and address in the bin...

looking_around

I have a freind who posts me stuff. (he's abroad)..but always asks me to burn his from address.

But he's paranoid..so I shrug it off with "yeah, of course" ..~into the bin~

I do however burn bank statements/and PPS number stuff... but an address and a name? nah.

MadsL

Yes. Foolish not to be. Anything personally identifying us gets shredded. We once got a litter fine because a bag of envelopes blew out of the communal recycling bin.

Identity theft is a pain in the arse if it happens to you...

http://money.howstuffworks.com/identity-theft.htm

Pherekydes

Tabnabs wrote: »

We had someone dumping their residential rubbish in a skip we had for house renovations. I got hacked off with their cheek so I opened up the bags until I found an envelope with name and address and returned it to his front garden.

There are lots of reasons not to put your name and address in the bin...

I found 3 bags of household rubbish in my recycling bins. I took them round the back and went through them until I found a name and address. I duly returned them to the guy's front garden.

The brass neck of some people. Throwing ordinary rubbish into recycling bins?

Teyla Emmagan

I am terribly lax. Nothing gets shredded or scribbled out. I think you can wear yourself out being paranoid. Also, I have nothing worth stealing.

shruikan2553

sweetie wrote: »

do you write your name and addresss on pizza boxes?

The pizza place put a sticker on the box with address, whats on the pizza, how many items in the order etc.

B.A._Baracus

I usually burn something that has my address, bank account number, etc. It's silly not to because you don't tell people personal information, so why leave it in a bin for someone to find and use against you.

McChubbin

I'm one of the folks that uses a shredder for the important stuff like bills, bank statements or the like.
You can never be too careful in this day and age, what with all the gob****es out there.

Stereomaniac

I don't know what sort of a person is going to go to the place where my rubbish ends up and spend time looking through it for envelopes with my address on it. Besides, my cat is vicious.