The Mail Center Tucson

Theft of identity is a growing issue that victimises thousands of people across the world on a regular basis. Invaluable information that is written on documents, including national insurance numbers, credit card information and bank account and routing information can be stolen out of the bin or recycling by determined and savvy thieves. Many people mistakenly assume that just blacking out vital numbers is sufficient to deter identity thieves.

Expert thieves don’t require a complete set of information to steal the identity of a person. Sometimes parts of an address and name or some old phone numbers are sufficient to create a persona, including credit cards issued in the name of the person whose identity is stolen. Documents that appear unobjectionable, such as Tax ID and national insurance numbers can be used to create new documents that assist in stealing identity. This is why people and businesses frequently turn to Shredding Service to assist them deal with the huge volume of material that have to shred.

The best thing to do is Document Shredding with all identifying information, regardless how innocuous the information might appear. This may add up to the thousands of pages of documents a week, which is no simple chore for a small shredder.

Reputed Marketing Mailers can assist any company. Hiring an external service also saves money and time in the long haul. Along with saving money and time spent monitoring and preventing identity thieves, an external service saves money and time over using a small shredder for huge volumes. A shredder uses huge amounts of energy every year. This cost is considerably increased when the equipment is taxed by using it at a much higher volume that it was designed for. Much of this cost can be reduced by hiring an external company to cater this service for a business or home.