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Shredding Your Junk Mail to a Better Place

DENVER/PRNewswire/ -- Most American households throw away unwanted solicitations from credit card companies, home equity E-Z: checks, offers for loan consolidation and even catalogs and magazines with our names and addresses printed on them. Before you disgustedly deposit all this junk mail in the trash, stop. Each year, we fill our landfills with over 4.4 million pounds of junk mail.

 

That is the equivalent of over 259,000 trees or 340,000 garbage trucks full of personal information. "It is easy to just throw all that stuff in the trash, but we are doing a great deal of damage. To our planet and potentially to our pocket books," says Anthony Castellano, president of ShredJunkMail.com. In the hands of the wrong people, your trash can become their treasure. Identity thieves pay "dumpster divers" to retrieve the offers you've passed on. They open accounts in your name and use them to run up huge bills.

 

The average victim of identity theft spends 60 hours trying to clear up their credit records. Or worse, if your identity is used in a crime, your next traffic stop could land you in jail until your "real identity" is revealed.

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Confidata document destruction located in Utica New York, is a member of NAID and follows FACTA and HIPAA records destruction requirements. CONFIDATA is a division of Empire Recycling Corporation

 

 

Confidata
N. Genesee & Lee Streets
PO Box 353 | Utica, NY 13503

 

Hours of Operation
Monday - Friday 7:30 to 4 PM

 

Phone: 1-800-62-SHRED
Fax: (315) 724-0167