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Blair wrote:
Any recommendations for purchase of a paper shredder and which to
avoid Blair

Get a cross cut shredder, you can get them cheap now. Regardless of
the extra security, because stuff is cut into small squares the bin
doesn't fill up as quickly as the straight cut shredders. So even a
small cross cut shredder will need less emptying than a larger
straight cut.

even less so if you simply cut the personally identifying
information out of the letter / A4 sheet, shred that and bin the
rest.

I know, I do do that sometimes but other times I can't be arsed. With
some of these credit card applications you get in the post they have
your details pre-filled all over the place.

What details are there already filled in on such a credit card
application that someone can't find out from publicly available
information anyway?

the sort of opportunist person that goes bin diving is not generally the
type of person who is clever enough to know that. otherwise, why would
they be bin diving ? besides, it's not the information they are after, it's
the hard copy documentation they are after, to start the old paper trail.