To shred or not to shred?

[Porritt, David]

I agree, Paul.  I have not opened one for several years.  I can find
things so much more quickly on the web page and I think all the
information in the book is there.  I know there are advertisements in
there so I don't know if the directory is a monetary profit or a loss.
I know I personally wouldn't miss it. 

 

Not only for the carbon footprint, and misuse of our trees, I tend to
scan everything and keep the information that way.  Receipts I scan and
attach them to the relevant entries in Quicken.  Society talks about
becoming paperless but lawyers, banks and the government keep cranking
it out.  I have stopped getting hard copies of my bank statements,
credit card statements etc.  Where I work paper memos are nearly a thing
of the past as everything comes by email.

 

dave

 

 

David M. Porritt, RPT

dporritt at smu.edu

 

From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On
Behalf Of paul bruesch
Sent: Sunday, June 08, 2008 10:21 AM
To: Pianotech List
Subject: Re: To shred or not to shred?

 

I shred my bills (usually after paying), credit card solicitations,
anything I print but don't use that has a client's name/addr/phone, but
I'm not going to overload my shredder (much less take the time) to shred
the PTG directory... but I did consider it. 

I'm not so concerned with identity theft, per se, from the PTG directory
as I am about it being a resource for spam e-mailers and snail-mailers,
but I don't think that THEY go thru our trash the way ID thieves do.
There isn't any information that's especially useful to ID thieves.

I do remove the spiral because I'm not sure if it's recyclable.
Actually, that's about the only time I open it... when I'm prepping it
to recycle after the new one arrives. What year is this??  In the
Internet age, I think it's a big waste of paper and all the associated
resources that go along with paper production. I'd be all for abolishing
it in favor of an online version... most (all?) of the info is online
already. I'm sure there are techs that are still without Internet
access... possibly a scaled-down version could be made available to
them... maybe on phonebook-like paper... and/or make it a purchase
option. 

Paul Bruesch
Stillwater, MN

On Sun, Jun 8, 2008 at 9:42 AM, Steve Blasyak <atuneforyou at gmail.com>
wrote:

Hey Now to all,

 

I have been behind on my list reading. Last weekend I got close to
caught up, then yesterday I was 30 behind again. I must say it certainly
has been entertaining to say the least. I don't know if I'm dyslexic but
sometimes my fingers don't type the letters in the right sequence.
That's why most email programs have spell checkers I think????

 

My question for the group today.

 

I finally got my PTG directory a couple of weeks ago. It seems to be
very late this year but I can't really remember when it usually comes.
Last year I shredded all of the parts that included names, addresses.
With Identity theft such a huge problem I feel reluctant to throw every
ones names and personal information in the trash. However it is a form
of advertisement, and all of our names are listed on the website are
they not? Not sure about the addresses though.

 

So whatcha all think? Do you shred the old directory or not?

 

Just wondering.

 

Hope to see all of my friends on the list in Anaheim!!!

 

C-ya

 

Steve Blasyak

Orange County Chapter

 

Pura Vida

 

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