When I get credit card offers in the mail, the only reason I used to open the envelope was so I could shred the application.
I wouldn’t have to do this if the companies would stop allowing people to put a different address on the darn thing. All a crook needs to do is fill out the form with your name but give their address. This has been going on for years, and it’s one of the main methods identity thieves use to destoy lives that could take years to get back in order.
I’ve stopped destroying the application. Now I write a note directly on it asking the company to omit the option of changing the address. I send it back to them. I don’t know if it’ll do any good or not, but hopefully one day it will.
To be a country of so many smart people, we can do some of the dumbest, stupidest things…and we do it over and over.
Peggy Duncan, personal productivity expert
