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9 Documents You Should Shred for Your Safety

July 3, 2023 · Personal Finance
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1. Shipping labels

Your package has finally arrived, and you couldn’t be more happy about it! But I bet that you forgot a small, simple detail about it: to remove the shipping label from it before throwing the box in the garbage. That’s called a shipping label, and it’s usually found under a plastic pouch. This piece of paper helps the courier find you easily; therefore, it contains valuable information about you: your address, full name, and the money you paid (or have to pay) for the package.

Before throwing or recycling the box, make sure you double-check it, pull out all the shipping labels it might have, and shred them as soon as possible. This is one of the first documents you should shred for your safety!

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9 comments on “9 Documents You Should Shred for Your Safety”

  1. jojo says:
    August 13, 2025 at 12:49 am

    whats the point of shredding photos when they are all over social media?

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  2. Lisa says:
    August 7, 2025 at 11:14 pm

    Thinking about all the documents mentioned, as a genealogists, i can say many of these are available online to access/download and not all are for dead folks. Also, you can find many of them and old photos as well uploaded to family trees.

    Reply
  3. Toni Ann Zafoot says:
    March 31, 2025 at 6:40 pm

    Excellent information will put it to good use

    Reply
  4. Kls says:
    February 2, 2025 at 1:41 pm

    Why would anyone destroy a birth certificate? You need that to get a passport, among other things.

    Reply
  5. Robin says:
    January 31, 2025 at 5:20 am

    Thanks for placement to go

    Reply
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